Oregon

[awr-i-guhn, ‑-gon, or‑]

noun

1. a state in the northwestern United States, on the Pacific coast. 96,981 square miles (251,180 square kilometers). Salem. OR (for use with zip code), Oreg., Ore.

2. a city in northwestern Ohio.

Oregon

/ ˈɒrɪɡən /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Oreg..  OR. a state of the northwestern US, on the Pacific: consists of the Coast and Cascade Ranges in the west and a plateau in the east; important timber production. Capital: Salem. Pop: 3 559 596 (2003 est). Area: 251 418 sq km (97 073 sq miles)

Oregon

1. State in the northwestern United States bordered by Washington to the north, Idaho to the east, Nevada and California to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Its capital is Salem, and its largest city is Portland.

Before the coming of the railroads, the Oregon Trail was used as an overland emigration route from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country (all of which was then called Oregon).

Other Word Forms

• Oregonian adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Oregon¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Actions are planned in Hawaii and Oregon later in the week.

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Richard York, of the University of Oregon, is seen marveling in the film at the self-willed blindness of the U.S. policy community to a simple question: Do clean-energy subsidies result in fossil fuels being displaced?

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That timeline, if it holds, would put Jordan on path for a potential return before the Trojans’ critical trip to Oregon, when they would presumably need him most.

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Oregon passed a law to police the legal arrangements that private-equity firms use to control the medical providers they buy, which is similar to the California law Newsom signed last week.

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The suspects were linked to burglaries in California, Oregon and Washington.

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