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Iowa

//ˈaɪəwə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.

    "I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw it through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops."

  2. 2
    A tributary of the Mississippi River which flows through Iowa in a southeast direction.
  3. 3
    A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
  4. 4
    Ellipsis of University of Iowa. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Noun
  1. 1
    One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.
  2. 2
    a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Iowa wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).

Etymology 2

From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).

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