Definition of Hawkeye State

1. Noun. A state in midwestern United States.


Definition of Hawkeye State

1. Proper noun. Iowa ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkeye State

Hawaiian hawks
Hawaiian honeycreeper
Hawaiian shirt
Hawaiian shirts
Hawaiianness
Hawaiians
Hawcubite
Hawcubites
Hawe
Hawes
Hawick
Hawiye
Hawiyes
Hawk-Eye
Hawkeye
Hawkeye State (current term)
Hawkin
Hawking
Hawking radiation
Hawkings
Hawkins
Hawkyns
Hawley appliance
Hawley retainer
Haworth
Haworth conformational formula
Haworth perspective formula
Hawsmith
Hawson
Hawthorne

Literary usage of Hawkeye State

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rand McNally & Co.'s Pocket Atlas of the World: Containing Colored Maps of by Rand McNally and Company (1887)
"1U YV A. "Hawkeye State. Part of the Louisiana purchase; merged iuto Missouri Territory, 1812; into Michigan, 1834; into Wisconsin, 1836. ..."

2. Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation by Emerson W. Gould (1889)
"In 1860 he built the steamer Hawkeye State at Pittsburgh and took her to St. Louis and with the Denmark and Hawkeye State, in connection with steamer Canada ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"... Georgia ; Creole State or Pelican State, Louisiana ; Empire State, New York ; Hawkeye State, Iowa ; Hoosier State, Indiana; Jayhawkers, inhabitants of ..."

4. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1907)
"Iowa—Hawkeye State. Kansas—Garden State, Garden of the West. Kentucky—Corn Cracker State. Louisiana—Creole State, Pelican State. Maine—Pine Tree State, ..."

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