Nevada

American  

[nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh] / nəˈvæd ə, -ˈvɑ də /

noun

1. a state in the western United States. 110,540 sq. mi. (286,300 sq. km). Carson City. NV (for use with zip code), Nev.

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Nevada British  

/ nɪˈvɑːdə /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Nev., NV. a state of the western US: lies almost wholly within the Great Basin, a vast desert plateau; noted for production of gold and copper. Capital: Carson City. Pop: 2 241 154 (2003 est). Area: 284 612 sq km (109 889 sq miles)

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Nevada Cultural  

1. State in the western United States bordered by Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah and Arizona to the east, and California to the south and west. Its capital is Carson City, and its largest city is Las Vegas.

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Long known as a center of gambling.

Other Word Forms

• Nevadan
  adjective
• Nevadian
  adjective

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Nevada

The privately held company operates more than 400 locations across 10 states: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, Washington and Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“I walked him through it. I said, ‘You’ve been to Nevada; you have a hotel in Nevada,’” Lombardo said on the “GangboX” podcast, which focuses on union construction workers in the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But at an event on Thursday, Tesla executives confirmed that the company’s Nevada factory will be capable of producing up to 50,000 Semi trucks each year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Following that meeting, Vogot then told Nevada officials that DHS had in fact manually reviewed some of the 16,000 or so suspected noncitizens and “confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens.”

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

He was reportedly the first man to send a car down into Death Valley and the first to push over the snowbanks of the Sierra Nevada, performing the feat on an annual basis.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand