Oklahoma

[ oh-kluh-hoh-muh ]

noun

1. a state in the south central United States. 69,919 square miles (181,090 square kilometers). : Oklahoma City. : OK (for use with zip code), Okla.

Oklahoma

/ ˌəʊkləˈhəʊmə /

noun

1. a state in the S central US: consists of plains in the west, rising to mountains in the southwest and east; important for oil. Capital: Oklahoma City. Pop: 3 511 532 (2003 est). Area: 181 185 sq km (69 956 sq miles) AbbreviationOkla.with zip codeOK

Oklahoma

¹

1. State in the southwestern United States, bordered by Colorado and Kansas to the north, Missouri and Arkansas to the east, Texas to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City .

Oklahoma!

²

1. A musical comedy by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It began a new era of sophistication in musical comedy and was the first of several very successful Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” “Oklahoma,” and “People Will Say We're in Love” are songs from Oklahoma!

Other Words From

• Okla·homan adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Oklahoma¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Choctaw Oklahommaʔ “Indian (i.e., North American Indian)”, equivalent to oklah “people, nation” + ommaʔ “red,” coined by the Choctaw scholar and Presbyterian minister Allen Wright (1826–85), later principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866–70), and originally applied to the Indian Territory; Five Civilized Nations ( def ), Indian Territory ( def )

Example Sentences

David Misener, the owner of an Oklahoma-based harvesting company called Green Acres Enterprises, is one employer who has struggled to find suitable replacements for the migrant workers he typically hires.

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On the other hand, one bright spot has been the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, who have vastly outperformed the US average in pandemic response.

From Popular-Science

The 2000 Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterbacked Oklahoma to its last national championship and then spent a sizable chunk of his coaching career as a Sooners offensive assistant under Bob Stoops.

From Washington Post

The scope of those problems is clearly visible in Oklahoma, which tied for the third-highest number of hospital closures in the country in the nine years before the pandemic.

From ProPublica

Other Big 12 teams generate more attention, but Oklahoma has quietly vaulted into third place after sweeping Kansas State and Kansas at home.

From Washington Post

Elauf, who is Muslim, had applied for a job at an A&F store in Tulsa, Oklahoma when she was 17.

From The Daily Beast

Hammerstein continued his subtle quest for racial equanimity in Oklahoma!

From The Daily Beast

A 19-year-old woman was killed in September after an undercover police watched a drug deal go down in Oklahoma City.

From The Daily Beast

The Oklahoma Kiowa have joined this warpath; the Yellowstone is their ancestral homeland.

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In 2006, former Oklahoma district judge Donald Thompson was sentenced to four years in prison.

From The Daily Beast

A remnant of about fourteen hundred of these tribesmen now lives on the Kiowa reservation, in Oklahoma.

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He took the train at Oklahoma City, and I sat directly behind him.

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How far is Oklahoma City from the place where the train was robbed?

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I wished to visit Guthrie, the capital of Oklahoma, and they did not care to do so.

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You came from Elreno to Oklahoma City on the first train this morning, did you?

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