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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Missouri Missouris

Von Glahn and his group of voters sued and won a unanimous decision from the Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

There was one thing missing when a wealthy Missouri couple purchased their oceanfront home overlooking Camden Harbor in Maine: the million-dollar view.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Jerry said, “If by nightfall we’ve left Missouri and we make a stop at Cairo, then we’re on the train to New Orleans.”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021

Here, on August 2d, appeared a small band of Otoes and Missouris, with a Frenchman who resided among them.

From Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William R. (William Rheem) Lighton

The Wisconsin tribes used to make captives of Pawnees, Osages, Missouris, and Mandans.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

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 was a French Post for some time in an island a few leagues in length, overagainst the Missouris; the French settled in this fort at the east-point, and called it Fort Orleans.

From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz