English Explanatory Dictionary

Florida

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.
  2. The peninsula which makes up most of the state of Florida, United States.
  3. Ellipsis of University of Florida.
  4. Several places in South and Central America:
  5. Two adjacent cities in Vicente López department, Buenos Aires province, Argentina: Florida Este and Florida Oeste.
  6. A province of Santa Cruz department, Bolivia.
  7. A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
  8. A town and commune of the Biobío region, Chile.
  9. A town in Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
  10. A municipality of Copán department, Honduras.
  11. A district of the Amazonas region, Peru.
  12. A department of Uruguay.

Pronunciation

flŏrʹ-ĭ-də /ˈflɒɹ.ɪ.də/ /ˈflɒɹ.ə.də/ flôrʹ-ĭ-də /ˈfloɹ.ɪ.də/ /ˈfloɹ.ə.də/ /ˈfloɹ.də/ /ˈflɔ.ɹɪ.də/ /ˈflɔ.ɹə.də/ en-us-Florida.ogg flärʹ-ĭ-də /ˈflɑɹ.ɪ.də/ En-NYC-Florida.wav /ˈflorɪɖɑ/ /ˈflɔ-/

Word forms

Florida

Etymology

From Spanish florida (“flowery”), often referring to a place's abundance of flowers, from Latin floridus. The state's name specifically is a shortening of la Florida (“the flowery one”) or Pascua Florida (“flowery Easter”). It is the oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US. The village in Orange County, New York was named in the 1760s from Latin flōrida (“flowery”).

Synonyms

UF

Related words

Mount Florida Strata Florida

Derived words

FL Fla. Florabama Floribama Floribbean Florida anise Florida apple snail Florida arrowroot Florida banded water snake Florida bass Florida Bay Florida bayberry Florida beggarweed Florida black bear Florida black wolf Florida bog frog Florida bonneted bat Florida box Florida boxwood Florida box turtle Florida caper Florida carpenter ant Florida cat's claw Florida City Florida cornel Florida cottonmouth Florida cracker Florida dogwood Florida duck Florida gallinule Florida gar Florida grackle Florida honeymoon Florida horse conch Florida jay Florida Keys Florida kingsnake Florida laurel Florida leaf-footed bug Florida mahogany Florida Man Florida manatee Florida maple Florida mastiff bat Florida moss Florida mouse Florida panther Florida pine Florida red-bellied cooter Florida redbelly turtle Florida redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata obscura Florida red scale Florida room Florida salt marsh vole Florida sand skink Florida scrub jay Florida selaginella (Selaginella eatonii Florida softshell turtle Florida stone crab Florida Strait

Translations

Afrikaans: Florida Arabic: فْلُورِيدَا Arabic: فلوريدا Armenian: Ֆլորիդա Asturian: Florida Basque: Florida Belarusian: Флары́да Bengali: ফ্লোরিডা Bulgarian: Фло́рида Catalan: Florida Chinese Cantonese: 佛羅里達 /佛罗里达 Chinese Cantonese: 佛州 Chinese Mandarin: 佛羅里達 /佛罗里达 Chinese Mandarin: 佛州 Corsican: Florida Czech: Florida Danish: Florida Dutch: Florida Esperanto: Florido Estonian: Florida Finnish: Florida French: Floride West-Frisian: Floarida Galician: Florida Georgian: ფლორიდა German: Florida Greek: Φλόριντα Hebrew: פלוֹרִידָה Hindi: फ़्लोरिडा Hindi: फ्लोरिडा Hungarian: Florida Icelandic: Flórída Italian: Florida Jamaican Creole: Flarida Japanese: フロリダ Khmer: រដ្ឋផ្លរីដា Khmer: ផ្លរីដា Korean: 플로리다 Lao: ຟລໍຣິດາ Latvian: Florida Limburgish: Florida Lithuanian: Florida Macedonian: Флори́да Maltese: Florida Marathi: फ्लोरिडा
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