Florida

[flawr-i-duh, flor-]

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.

Florida

/ 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

Florida

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.

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

The ship is in the middle of an ocean of green water, which reminds me of Autumn’s stories about the beaches in Florida—clean and clear enough to see straight down to the bottom.

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The skies were clear and turquoise blue as the Freedom 7 sat atop Launch Pad 5 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Under its new ecommerce plan, the grocer will close three fulfillment centers located in Florida, Maryland and Wisconsin, while monitoring the performance of its remaining facilities.

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In the late 1990s, Simpson gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where under state law his home could not be seized by creditors, in large part to avoid paying the civil judgment.

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Most of the other listed doctors no longer worked in the area or were contractors of the local hospital system, McLeod Health, which hired a Florida telemedicine company to provide emergency consultations for stroke patients.

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