texas

¹ American  

[tek-suhs] / ˈtɛk səs /

noun

U.S. Nautical.

1. a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.

2. texas deck.

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Texas ² American  

[tek-suhs] / ˈtɛk səs /

noun

1. a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Austin. TX (for use with zip code), Tex.

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Texas British  

/ ˈtɛksəs /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Tex.   TX.  a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles)

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Texas Cultural  

1. State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston.

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One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.

Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.

Other Word Forms

• Texan adjective
• Texian adjective

Etymology

Origin of texas

1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states

Example Sentences

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has already bought or rented at least eight such facilities, from Texas to Pennsylvania, that it will convert into detention hubs.

From Barron's

Nanos began his career in the El Paso, Texas, police department before joining the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in 1984 as a corrections officer, according to a biography on the department website.

From The Wall Street Journal

His Sonny, a Texas evangel with a devoted flock, is deeply flawed — to watch the way his wife flinches when he approaches her tells its own sad backstory.

From Los Angeles Times

Japan also is investing just over $2 billion in a deep-water crude oil export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast led by Sentinel Midstream.

From The Wall Street Journal

Corrections & Amplifications Japan is investing just over $2 billion in a deep-water crude oil export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast led by Sentinel Midstream.

From The Wall Street Journal