Iowa

[ ahy-uh-wuh; sometimes ahy-uh-wey ]

noun

, plural I·o·was, (especially collectively) I·o·wa

1. a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). : Des Moines. : IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
2. a river flowing southeast from northern Iowa to the Mississippi River. 291 miles (470 km) long.
3. a member of an American Indian people originally of Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota but now of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
4. the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa Indians.

Iowa

/ ˈaɪəʊə /

noun

1. a state of the N central US, in the Midwest: consists of rolling plains crossed by many rivers, with the Missouri forming the western border and the Mississippi the eastern. Capital: Des Moines. Pop: 2 944 062 (2003 est). Area: 144 887 sq km (55 941 sq miles) AbbreviationIa.with zip codeIA

Iowa

1. State in the midwestern United States bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west. Its capital and largest city is Des Moines .

Example Sentences

And keep in mind that when Huckabee ran for president in 2008, he won the Iowa caucuses.

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Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.

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In 2008 and 2012, Huckabee and Santorum, respectively won the Iowa Caucus, but did not make it to the finish line.

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In an effort to gain early attention, he focused his attention on the Iowa precinct caucuses, which had never mattered much.

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Also this week, he keynoted a fundraiser for Progress Iowa, an influential liberal group in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.

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I was accompanied by a nervous friend from Iowa who confessed that he had been in an automobile but once before.

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The country is mostly a rolling prairie, where a road may be constructed as easily as through the State of Iowa.

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Illinois and Iowa were filling up, and men from Kentucky were passing north across the Ohio.

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Some Iowa soldiers, on seediest horses and sorriest mules, were riding round on a frolic.

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Shes down helping pack the boxes that are to go to that girls college out in Iowa.

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