Iowa Definition

īə-wə
iowas
noun
A member of a North American Indian people previously living in Iowa and Missouri and now living in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
Webster's New World
The Siouan language of this people, closely related to Missouri.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun
A state of the United States of America Capital: Des Moines.
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Other Word Forms of Iowa

Noun

Singular:
Iowa
Plural:
iowas

Origin of Iowa

  • From French Aiouez, an initial translation of the name for the Iowa tribe.

    From Wiktionary

  • From French ayoés ultimately from Dakota ayúxba

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Iowa Sentence Examples

  • This minister put me up for the night in Iowa.

  • Iowa City has a considerable variety of small manufacturing establishments.

  • For instance, New York has made large contributions to the population of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and so on.

  • The chief building in Des Moines is the State Capitol, erected at a cost of about $3,000,000; other important buildings are the public library (containing, in 1908, 40,415 volumes), the court house, the post office, the Iowa State Historical building, a large auditorium and two hospitals.

  • In 1839 Iowa City was selected as the site for the seat of government of the newly created Territory of Iowa.

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Words Starting With

IIO

Words Ending With

AWAOWA

Unscrambles

Iowa

Words Starting With I and Ending With A

Starts With I & Ends With AStarts With IO & Ends With AStarts With I & Ends With WA

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With I4 Letter Words Ending With A

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