Magnolia State

prop. n.

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The state of Mississippi; - a nickname.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Magnolia State - a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War Mississippi, MS siege of Vicksburg, Vicksburg - a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 South - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery Biloxi - an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico Columbus - a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama Greenville - a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg Hattiesburg - a town in southeast Mississippi capital of Mississippi, Jackson - capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River Meridian - a town in eastern Mississippi Natchez - a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River Tupelo - a town in northeast Mississippi Vicksburg - a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves Pearl River - a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico Tombigbee, Tombigbee River - a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River Yazoo, Yazoo River - a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg