Mississippi
pronunciation
How to pronounce Mississippi in British English:
UK [ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi]
How to pronounce Mississippi in American English:
US [ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi]
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- Noun:
- a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
- a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
Word Origin
- Mississippi
- originally as the name of the river, from French, from Algonquian (French missionaries first penetrated the river valley in its upper reaches), literally "big river;" compare Ojibwa mshi- "big," ziibi "river." Organized as a U.S. territory 1798; admitted as a state 1817. Related: Mississippian.
Example
- 1. In 1935 elvis presley was born in tupelo mississippi .
- 2. I suspect that probably half of the rain fall evaporates back into the air before it gets down the mississippi .
- 3. How big is the mississippi watershed ?
- 4. And the mississippi basin isn 't the only region at risk .
- 5. Mississippi alone had 54 black mayors .