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say it: al-uh-BAM-uh
alabama is a noun meaning "a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War". It is pronounced /ˌæləˈbæmə/ — al-uh-BAM-uh. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama
“the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy”
a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River
the Muskhogean language of the Alabama
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alabama come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.