Kansas
name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa wordnet
- 2 a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas wordnet
- 1 A state of the midwest United States. Capital: Topeka. Largest city: Wichita.
"On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 bombers, and multiple flight trackers on social media said the planes being refueled were B-2 bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri."
- 2 A river in northeast Kansas.
- 3 Ellipsis of University of Kansas. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Example
More examples"We have just received an inquiry from Kansas concerning your brother."
Etymology
From a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa; related to Arkansas, which see for more information.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.