illinois
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1. the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin, |
| definition | : | family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains (noun.communication) |
2. a midwestern state in north-central United States (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | american state, |
| definition | : | one of the 50 states of the United States (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | cairo, |
| definition | : | a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | carbondale, |
| definition | : | a town in southern Illinois (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | champaign, |
| definition | : | a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | chicago, windy city, |
| definition | : | largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | decatur, |
| definition | : | a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | east saint louis, |
| definition | : | a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | moline, |
| definition | : | a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | peoria, |
| definition | : | a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | rockford, |
| definition | : | a city in northern Illinois (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | rock island, |
| definition | : | a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | urbana, |
| definition | : | a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | illinois river, |
| definition | : | a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River (noun.object) |
3. a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | algonquian, algonquin, |
| definition | : | a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast (noun.person) |
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