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. Abbreviation: Tex.  TX. 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)

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.

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 Word Forms

• Texan adjective
• Texian adjective

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

Former NBA player Patrick Beverley was arrested after being accused by his teenage sister of grabbing her by the neck with a tight grip and punching her in the eye during an incident early Friday morning at their mother’s home in Fort Bend County, Texas.

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The language was removed because Texas had already passed its redistricting plan, making the trigger no longer needed, said Democratic redistricting expert Paul Mitchell, who drew the maps for Prop.

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“This ruling is a win for Texas, and for every American who fights for free and fair elections.”

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The newly configured districts passed by Texas redrew all three, potentially “cracking” racially diverse communities while preserving white-majority districts, legal scholars said.

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“Our legislature eliminated the trigger because Texas had already triggered it,” Mitchell said Tuesday.

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