26984 words

mississippi

2 definitions • 4 examples
1
a very long river in the US that runs through Minneapolis, St. Louis, New Orleans, and some other cities to the Gulf of Mexico:

Examples:

The bridge goes over the Mississippi river.
along the banks of the Mississippi
2
a state in the southern US, whose capital city is Jackson :

Examples:

They stopped at the cotton fields of Mississippi.
The temperature in Mississippi is the same from north to south.

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