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    NEB.

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A midwestern state on the Great Plainsplay

    Synonyms:

    Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

    Meronyms (parts of "Neb."):

    Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)

    Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)

    capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)

    North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)

    Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)

    North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

    Platte; Platte River (a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)

    Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

    South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)

    Holonyms ("Neb." is a part of...):

    middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

    America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

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