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    SOUTH CAROLINA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 coloniesplay

    Synonyms:

    Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

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

    Meronyms (parts of "South Carolina"):

    capital of South Carolina; Columbia (capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina)

    Charleston (a port city in southeastern South Carolina)

    Florence (a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center)

    Greenville (a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont)

    Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)

    Savannah; Savannah River (a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic)

    Domain member region:

    battle of Cowpens; Cowpens (battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British)

    Holonyms ("South Carolina" is a part of...):

    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)

    South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

    Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

    Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)

    Holonyms ("South Carolina" is a member of...):

    Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    One of the British colonies that formed the United Statesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

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