Kansas definition

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(place) Midwestern state of the NC U.S.: admitted 1861; 81,815 sq mi (211,900 sq km); cap. Topeka.
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(place) River in NE Kans., flowing east into the Missouri at Kansas City: c. 170 mi (274 km)
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A state of the central United States. It was admitted as the 34th state in 1861. Organized as a territory by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, it became a virtual battleground, known as Bleeding Kansas, for free and slave factions (1854–1859). Kansas was finally admitted as a free state. Topeka is the capital and Wichita the largest city.
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A state of the mid United States of America. Capital: Topeka.
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Kansas Sentence Examples

  • She was ticketed in Kansas yesterday.

  • The only ones west of the Mississippi are Kansas and Oklahoma, and Arizona and New Mexico in the west.

  • Kansas is the last place I'd have guessed.

  • Of these the most interesting are Ichthyornis (= Graculavus) and Hesperornis, from the Cretaceous shales of Kansas.

  • From Pennsylvania the sect spread chiefly westward, and, after various vicissitudes, caused by defections and divisions due to doctrinal differences, in 1908 were most numerous in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and North Dakota.

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