Meaning and Origin
What does the name Missouri mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Missouri
User Submitted Origins
Native American
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International Interest
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Other Dictionary Sources
- A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
- A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
- The longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis ("The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world")
- A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
Wiktionary
From a French adaptation of Miami wimihsoorita (“the people who have dugout canoes”), a term for the inhabitants of the area around the Missouri River.
- A state of the United States.
- The longest river in the United States, flowing from Montana to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis.
- A Native American tribe that originally lived in the Great Lakes region of United States.
- (historical) An organized territory in the United States during the nineteenth century.
Missouri was also found in the following language(s): Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese