mississippi river

1. 1.

   a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico

   SynonymsMississippi

   Broaderriver

   Part ofUnited States

Questions about mississippi river

What does mississippi river mean?

mississippi river means "a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico".

What is another word for mississippi river?

Close synonyms include Mississippi. 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 mississippi river a common word?

mississippi river 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.