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Definition of Dixieland
1. Noun. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Terms within: Slave State
Member holonyms: Al, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart Of Dixie, Ar, Arkansas, Land Of Opportunity, Everglade State, Fl, Florida, Sunshine State, Empire State Of The South, Ga, Georgia, Peach State, La, Louisiana, Pelican State, Magnolia State, Mississippi, Ms, Missouri, Mo, Show Me State, Nc, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State, Palmetto State, Sc, South Carolina, Tennessee, Tn, Volunteer State, Lone-star State, Texas, Tx, Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, Va, Virginia
Attributes: South, Southern
Definition of Dixieland
1. Proper noun. The southern states of the US; Dixie. ¹
2. Proper noun. (music) A type of jazz that originated in New Orleans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dixieland
Literary usage of Dixieland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers: By by Robert Laird Stewart (1912)
"SOUTHWARD FROM MARYLAND TO dixieland. On! brothers on! for the Flag that is peerless!
Striped from the rainbow and starred from the sky; On with a sturdy ..."
2. The Phono-bretto: (phonograph Libretto) The Indispensible Companion of the (1919)
"Columbia Record 1436 THERE'S A BUNGALOW IN dixieland Freeman There's a pretty
... Chorus: There's a little bungalow in dixieland Just big enough for two. ..."
3. On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thomas Dowler Murphy (1921)
"It was not until we entered the confines of the cultivated lands a short distance
from dixieland that we found a fine boulevard, which continued for several ..."
4. A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and by Henry Ormal Severance (1906)
"dixieland, 1904, m 1.00 dixieland pub. co., Dallas, Tex. Doane owl, 1878, m 1.25
Students of Doane college, Crete, Neb. Dog fancier, T 891. m 50 Eugen Glass ..."
5. California Desert Trails by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1919)
"I saw far ahead the buildings of the first of these, a hamlet named dixieland,
and about midday we arrived at a canal (or ditch, as they call it), ..."
6. Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles by Southern California Panama Expositions Commission, John Steven McGroarty, 1862-1944 (1914)
"... now having one bank, hotel, newspaper, two cotton gins, and two solid blocks
of thriving business houses. dixieland. dixieland, lying on the ..."
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