Missouri

American  

[mi-zoor-ee, -zoor-uh] / mɪˈzʊər i, -ˈzʊər ə /

noun

• Missouris,
  plural
• Missouri
  plural

1. a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Jefferson City. MO (for use with zip code), Mo.

2. a river flowing from SW Montana into the Mississippi N of St. Louis, Mo. 2,723 miles (4,382 km) long.

3. a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Siouan linguistic stock, located on the Missouri River in early historic times and now extinct as a tribe.

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idioms

1. from Missouri, unwilling to accept something without proof; skeptical.

   I'm from Missouri—you'll have to show me that you're right.

Missouri British  

/ mɪˈzʊərɪ /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Mo, MO. a state of the central US: consists of rolling prairies in the north, the Ozark Mountains in the south, and part of the Mississippi flood plain in the southeast, with the Mississippi forming the E border; chief US producer of lead and barytes. Capital: Jefferson City. Pop: 5 704 484 (2003 est). Area: 178 699 sq km (68 995 sq miles)

2. a river in the W and central US, rising in SW Montana: flows north, east, and southeast to join the Mississippi above St Louis; the longest river in North America; chief tributary of the Mississippi. Length: 3970 km (2466 miles)

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Missouri Cultural  

1. State in the central United States bordered by Iowa to the north; Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee to the east; Arkansas to the south; and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. Its capital is Jefferson City, and its largest city is St. Louis.

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Missouri More Idioms  

1. see from Missouri.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Missourian
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Missouri
  plural
• Missouris
  plural

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Missouri Missouris

That study found 1 in 4 adults tested positive for alpha-gal in the five worst-hit states — Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia, or more than 4 million people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“This court’s September 10 stay order meant that the 2022 map would be used in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri, absent further order of this court,” the justices wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A new discovery from the University of Missouri is revealing an overlooked reason muscles can lose strength with age.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Missouri is asking utilities for wildfire mitigation plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I guess. What I mean is that I’m as stubborn as a Missouri mule.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Exactly what Lindell has been doing in "your Missouris" and "Alabamas" is unclear.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021

The Missouris came down the river in many canoes, and their enemies had concealed themselves in the willow thickets.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

They held a big council here, decorating a few more Otoes and Missouris, and telling them to make peace with the Omahas and the Pawnee Loups.

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough

Sauk Indians— excursions of, against the Osage and Missouris, 98 Missouri driven out by, 121 removal of, to Indian Territory, 38 territory of, 1 village of, visited by Long, 38 See Sauk and Foxes.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

There were in the party two almoners; one of them was killed directly and the other got away to the Missouris, who took him prisoner, but he escaped them very dexterously.

From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill

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