Iowa
a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines. Abbreviations: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
a river flowing southeast from northern Iowa to the Mississippi River. 291 miles (470 km) long.
a member of an American Indian people originally of Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota but now of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.
the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa Indians.
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How to use Iowa in a sentence
I grew up about three hours south of Jackson in Benndale, Mississippi, but left for Iowa when I finished school because that’s where my brother went to college.
Despite no training camp or Summer League to aid his NBA transition, the first-year guard out of Iowa State has provided ample flexibility for Sacramento’s rotation.
De’Aaron Fox Isn’t An All-Star, But He’s Taken The Leap | James L. Jackson | February 25, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightFinally, reporters traveled to Waterloo, Iowa, where the local Tyson pork plant had the nation’s largest-known workplace outbreak.
ProPublica’s COVID-19 Stories Win Polk Award for Health Reporting | by ProPublica | February 24, 2021 | ProPublicaThree years later, Iowa appeared to be in good shape for a fourth-straight NCAA Tournament appearance after finishing a grueling Big Ten schedule with a 10-8 record.
Can Iowa’s High-Flying Offense Overcome Its Porous Defense? | Jake Lourim | February 24, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightWithin days of leaving the Democratic National Committee, former chairman Tom Perez told Reid Epstein of the New York Times that Iowa and New Hampshire's first-state status needed another look.
The Trailer: The House Democrats’ campaign chief thinks his party can defy history | David Weigel | February 18, 2021 | Washington Post
And keep in mind that when Huckabee ran for president in 2008, he won the Iowa caucuses.
Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.
In 2008 and 2012, Huckabee and Santorum, respectively won the Iowa Caucus, but did not make it to the finish line.
In an effort to gain early attention, he focused his attention on the Iowa precinct caucuses, which had never mattered much.
Also this week, he keynoted a fundraiser for Progress Iowa, an influential liberal group in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
Why the Left Loves Warren, But Won’t Swoon for Sanders | David Freedlander | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was accompanied by a nervous friend from Iowa who confessed that he had been in an automobile but once before.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThe country is mostly a rolling prairie, where a road may be constructed as easily as through the State of Iowa.
Illinois and Iowa were filling up, and men from Kentucky were passing north across the Ohio.
The Way of a Man | Emerson HoughSome Iowa soldiers, on seediest horses and sorriest mules, were riding round on a frolic.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Shes down helping pack the boxes that are to go to that girls college out in Iowa.
Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. Jackson
British Dictionary definitions for Iowa
/ (ˈaɪəʊə) /
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): Abbreviation: Ia., (with zip code) IA
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Iowa
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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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