say it: muh-ZUUR-ee
missouri is a noun meaning "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". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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
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”
a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
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 missouri 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.