Mississippi River
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[edit]Etymology 1
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From Mississippi + river. From Ojibwe misi-ziibi (“great river”); itself already containing the term "river" in Ojibwe.
Proper noun
[edit]the Mississippi River
- (US) The Mississippi (a major river passing through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, United States).
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]river
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Etymology 2
[edit]See Mississippi § Etymology 2.
Proper noun
[edit]the Mississippi River
- A river in eastern Ontario, Canada, which joins the Ottawa River.
Further reading
[edit]- “Mississippi River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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- English proper nouns
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- American English
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