missouri   (TTS Sound)

The noun missouri has 4 senses

• Missouri, Show Me State, MO -- (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)


• Missouri, Missouri River -- (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")


• Missouri -- (a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri)


• Missouri -- (a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri)