Alabama
pronunciation
How to pronounce Alabama in British English:
UK [ˌælə'bæmə]
How to pronounce Alabama in American English:
US [ˌælə'bæmə]
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- Noun:
- a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
- a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
- a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River
- the Muskhogean language of the Alabama people
Word Origin
- Alabama
- created and named as a U.S. territory 1817 by a division of Mississippi Territory; ultimately named for one of the native peoples who lived there, who speak Muskogean. Their name probably is from a Choctaw term meaning "plant-cutters." Related: Alabamian.
Example
- 1. But the alabama law goes much further than either .
- 2. The alabama law imitates those in some respects .
- 3. The coast guard and alabama authorities instead deployed lighter boom .
- 4. By monday several cabinet members as well as the president had visited alabama .
- 5. American states such as georgia and alabama belong together , whereas california splits three ways .