texas

¹

[ tek-suhs ]

noun

, U.S. Nautical.

1. a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
2. texas deck.

Texas

²

[ tek-suhs ]

noun

1. a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). : Austin. : TX (for use with zip code), Tex.

Texas

/ ˈtɛksəs /

noun

1. 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: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles) AbbreviationTexwith zip codeTX

Texas

1. 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

One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .

Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.

Other Words From

• Texan Tex·i·an [tek, -see-, uh, n], adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of texas¹

1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states

Example Sentences

In the wake of the Texas blackout, it’s sobering to note how many of these artworks, even the ones that don’t move, required electricity.

From Washington Post

The Texas example shows how ratepayers can be left holding the bag when that calculus doesn’t, or can’t, account for increasingly erratic extreme weather events.

From Quartz

A Texas grocery store lost power and let people leave without paying.

From Washington Post

She said she thinks Texas is the only other state that builds in “additional protections” for motorists via a soft-rate cap that can be exceeded only under certain conditions.

From Washington Post

The severe weather and power outages affected many households and lenders in Texas, causing a drop of more than 40 percent in both purchase and refinance applications in the state.

From Washington Post

This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed.

From The Daily Beast

The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.

From The Daily Beast

This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.

From The Daily Beast

Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.

From The Daily Beast

Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.

From The Daily Beast

Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.

From Project Gutenberg

From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.

From Project Gutenberg

But here at Fort Walsh we're among a class of people that are a heap different from Texas cow-punchers.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a brilliant blue job with red wheels, and it carried a Texas license.

From Project Gutenberg

Tyler approved the annexation of Texas to the Union near the end of his Presidential administration.

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