English Explanatory Dictionary

Texas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.
  2. Several places in the United States:
  3. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
  4. A hamlet in Oswego County, New York.
  5. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Alabama.
  6. An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
  7. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
  8. An unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi.
  9. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
  10. An unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia.
  11. A number of townships, listed under Texas Township.
  12. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Queensland town.
noun
  1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛk.səs/ /ˈtɛk.sɪs/ /ˈtɛk.sɪz/ en-us-Texas.ogg /ˈtek.səs/

Word forms

Texas texases

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.

Synonyms

Lone Star State

Derived words

Teck's Ass Tex Texan Texarkana Texas 42 Texas bankroll Texas blind snake Texas bluebonnet Texas blues Texas cattle fever Texas caviar Texas chicken Texas chili Texas cichlid Texas City Texas County Texas crabapple Texas Deathmatch Texas ebony Texas fever Texas garter snake Texas gate Texas heart shot Texas hickory Texas hold 'em Texas Indian paintbrush Texasization Texasize Texas justice Texas leaguer Texas League single Texas lined snake Texas mickey Texas mountain laurel Texas ratio Texas rig Texas roll Texas root rot Texass Texas sacahuiste Texas sharpshooter fallacy Texasshole Texas-sized Texas sparrow Texas spiny lizard Texas strip Texas tea Texas toast Texas Tommy Texas toothpick Texas tower Texas Triangle Texas trinity Texas two-step Texas umbrella tree Texas vervain Texas wedge Texas wild rice Texhoma Texian

Translations

Albanian: Teksas Albanian: Teksasi Antillean Creole: Teksas Chiricahua: Ch'a nteeã-õde bikéé'yaa' Arabic: تَكْسَاس Arabic: تِكْسَاس Armenian: Տեխաս Azerbaijani: Texas Belarusian: Тэха́с Bulgarian: Те́ксас Catalan: Texas Cherokee: ᏅᏓᎩ Chinese Mandarin: 德克薩斯 /德克萨斯 Corsican: Texas Czech: Texas Danish: Texas Dutch: Texas Esperanto: Teksaso Estonian: Texas Finnish: Texas Finnish: Teksas French: Texas West-Frisian: Teksas Galician: Texas Georgian: ტეხასი German: Texas Greek: Τέξας Hawaiian: Kekeka Hebrew: טֶקְסַס Hindi: टेक्सास Hindi: टेक्सस Icelandic: Texas Irish: Téacsas Italian: Texas Japanese: テキサス Japanese: テキサス州 Kazakh: Техас Khmer: តិចសាស Khmer: តិចសាស់ Korean: 텍사스 Kyrgyz: Техас Lao: ເທັກຊັດ Latvian: Teksasa Lithuanian: Teksasas Macedonian: Тексас Navajo: Akałii bikéyah Navajo: Téʼsiz hahoodzo
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