prairie state

Questions about prairie state

What does prairie state mean?

prairie state means "a midwestern state in north-central United States".

What is another word for prairie state?

Close synonyms include Illinois, Land of Lincoln, IL, Ill.. 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 prairie state a common word?

prairie 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.