texas

¹

[tek-suhs]

noun

U.S. Nautical.

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

2. texas deck.

Texas

²

[tek-suhs]

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.

Texas

/ 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)

Texas

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.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Texas¹

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

Two B-1 Lancers took off from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on Thursday and flew near Venezuela, though they remained in international airspace, according to a U.S. official and flight tracking data.

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In recent months, GOP-controlled legislatures in Texas and Missouri have approved new congressional boundaries designed to add Republican seats, while legislators in Kansas and Indiana are considering similar steps.

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"In this case, it would have been: do we need such a big ballroom? Should it be smaller?" said Jain, a professor of architecture at Texas A&M University.

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So did Tricolor, a Dallas-based subprime auto lender, which often focused on financing used vehicles for Spanish-speaking immigrants in Texas and California, people often with modest incomes and limited or no credit histories.

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Living in Austin in Texas, the United States, it takes him "between 14 and 18 months to illustrate a 48-page comic book".

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