texas

¹ American  

[tek-suhs] / ˈtɛk səs /

noun

U.S. Nautical.

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

2. texas deck.

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Texas ² American  

[tek-suhs] / ˈtɛk səs /

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.

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Texas British  

/ 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)

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Texas Cultural  

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.

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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

Etymology

Origin of texas

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

One surrogate in Texas, one of the accounts wrote this month, was “just waiting for us to come and take the baby. Thank you to the surrogate mother for helping the client realize their dream of having a child!”

From The Wall Street Journal

Prices are now solidly in the danger zone for producers, and neither Wall Street nor Texas boardrooms expect them to rise much in the new year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Aside from two brief stretches in the chaos of 2020’s Covid crash, that hasn’t happened since West Texas Intermediate oil futures began trading in 1983.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Boxing Day, they joined other boaters for a Christmas lunch, including their hosts, the couple behind the Facebook account One Day More Aboard, which covers the story of Caroline and Pete who moved back to England from Texas to live on a narrowboat.

From BBC

They formed their own women's circuit, signing a symbolic $1 contract to compete in a tournament in Texas.

From BBC