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Definition of Prairie State
1. Noun. A midwestern state in north-central United States.
Group relationships: Middle West, Midwest, Midwestern United States, America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
Generic synonyms: American State
Terms within: Cairo, Carbondale, Champaign, Chicago, Windy City, Decatur, East Saint Louis, Moline, Peoria, Rockford, Rock Island, Capital Of Illinois, Springfield, Urbana, Illinois River, Little Wabash, Little Wabash River
Definition of Prairie State
1. Proper noun. Illinois ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie State
Literary usage of Prairie State
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pages from the Early History of the West and Northwest: Embracing by Stephen R. Beggs (1868)
"Illinois is properly called the Prairie State; as it is, generally speaking, one
vast prairie, intersected by strips of woods, chiefly confined to the banks ..."
2. A Hand Book of Iowa: Or The Discovery, Settlement, Geographical Location by Charles Ashton, James Ott Crosby, J. W. Jarnagin (1893)
"Iowa was early known as a prairie state. Its broad, treeless areas were its glory.
Its prairies were not in their natural condition vast marshes, ..."
3. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"Popular name, " The Sucker, or Prairie State." MICHIGAN. Michigan is divided, by
the lake of the same name, into two large peninsulas, ..."
4. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"Popular name, " The Sucker, or Prairie State." MICHIGAN. Michigan is divided, by
the lake of the same name, into two large peninsulas, the most northern of ..."
5. The Call of the Land: Popular Chapters on Topics of Interest to Farmers by Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1913)
"... CHAPTER X INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN A Prairie State UNLIKE what is called liberal
education, which aims straight at personal development, ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1861 Illinois, the " Prairie State," proved that she was as rich in her plantations
as in her resources.—OJ Victor, ' Hist. of the So. Rebellion,' i. 166. ..."
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