Yazoo

American  

[yaz-oo, ya-zoo] / ˈyæz u, yæˈzu /

noun

1. a city in W central Mississippi.

2. a river flowing SW from N Mississippi into the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. 188 miles (303 km) long.

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Example Sentences

“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Born Alzenia Lynn Hamilton on April 25, 1930, in Yazoo City, Miss., and raised from age 12 in Chicago, she studied acting at the Goodman Theatre and later earned a bachelor of arts degree.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025

After capturing the animal, the hunters hoisted it with a forklift and posed for a picture at Red Antler Processing in the Mississippi Delta town of Yazoo City.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Its residents live with the risk of flooding should the backwater levees along the Yazoo fail.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

I didn’t even want to think how much more miserable her life might become in that shack down along the Yazoo.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe