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Missouri

mis·souri

UK/mɪˈzʊəɹi/ US/mɪˈzʊɹ.i/ fairly common

noun

1.

a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union

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the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis

  • “The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world”
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a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri

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Origin

From a French adaptation of Miami wimihsoorita (“the people who have dugout canoes”), a term for the inhabitants of the area around the Missouri River.

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