Florida

American  

[flawr-i-duh, flor-] / ˈflɔr ɪ də, ˈflɒr- /

noun

1. a state in the southeastern United States between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 square miles (151,670 square kilometers). Tallahassee. FL (for use with zip code), Fla.

2. Also called Florida Straits,.  Also called Florida Strait.  Straits of Florida. an ocean passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Florida British  

/ ˈflɒrɪdə /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Fla..   FL.  a state of the southeastern US, between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico: consists mostly of a low-lying peninsula ending in the Florida Keys a chain of small islands off the coast of S Florida, extending southwest for over 160 km (100 miles). Capital: Tallahassee. Pop: 17 019 068 (2003 est). Area: 143 900 sq km (55 560 sq miles)

2. a sea passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba, linking the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico

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Florida Cultural  

1. The southeasternmost state of the contiguous United States, bordered by Alabama and Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, and the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama to the west. Its capital is Tallahassee, and its largest city is Jacksonville.

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Home of the Kennedy Space Center, launch site for many U.S. space missions.

Home of Walt Disney World, an amusement park near Orlando, and many other theme parks. (See Walt Disney.)

St. Augustine, located on the coast of Northern Florida, is the oldest city in the United States, settled in the sixteenth century by Spain.

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.

Example Sentences

“I think that many people knew about this for a while,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, said in an interview with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Similar suits filed by Texas, Florida, Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas are unfolding in courts across the country.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

US rapper Offset has performed at Coachella almost a week after being shot outside a casino in Florida.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

The Orion spacecraft’s main two sections are already at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center along the Florida coast.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

In Florida, people traveled to Cape Canaveral itself and lined both its beaches gleaming with sand and its asphalt-topped roadways, trying to catch a glimpse of the spaceship.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson