lone-star state

Questions about lone-star state

What does lone-star state mean?

lone-star state means "the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico".

What is another word for lone-star state?

Close synonyms include Texas, TX, Tex.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lone-star state a common word?

lone-star state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.