Oklahoma
pronunciation
How to pronounce Oklahoma in British English:
UK [,əuklə'həumə]
How to pronounce Oklahoma in American English:
US [ˌokləˈhomə]
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- Noun:
- a state in south central United States
Word Origin
- Oklahoma
- from Choctaw, literally "red people," from okla "nation, people" + homma "red." Coined by Choctaw scholar Allen Wright, later principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, and first used in the Choctaw-Chickasaw treaty of April 28, 1866. Organized as a U.S. territory 1889; admitted as a state 1907. Related: Oklahoman.
Example
- 1. Other states have begun attempts to emulate oklahoma .
- 2. Oklahoma has become fertile ground for conservatives .
- 3. Although missouri was its birthplace , oklahoma is probably the most famed location on the route .
- 4. Neither the attack of 1993 on the world trade centre nor the bombing in oklahoma in 1995 had changed that .
- 5. A lawsuit in oklahoma seeks to scuttle this effort , claiming that a legislative glitch prohibits subsidies on the federal exchanges .