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texas
[ tek-suhs ]
/ ËtÉk sÉs /
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noun U.S. Nautical.
a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
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Origin of texas
1855â60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states
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Other definitions for texas (2 of 2)
Texas
[ tek-suhs ]
/ ËtÉk sÉs /
noun
a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviations: TX (for use with zip code), Tex.
OTHER WORDS FROM Texas
Texan, Tex·i·an [tek-see-uhn], /ËtÉk si Én/, adjective, nounDictionary.com Unabridged
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British Dictionary definitions for texas
Texas
/ (ËtÉksÉs) /
noun
a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22Â 118Â 509 (2003 est). Area: 678Â 927 sq km (262Â 134 sq miles)Abbreviation: Tex, (with zip code) TX
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Cultural definitions for texas
Texas
State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston.
notes for Texas
One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.
notes for Texas
One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
notes for Texas
Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.
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