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Itasca

Itasca proper noun: a village in DuPage County, Illinois.

Proper noun

Itasca

  1. A village in DuPage County, Illinois.
  2. A township in Sherman County, Kansas.
  3. A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota.
  4. A small city in Hill County, Texas.

Origin of Itasca

A pseudo-Indian word coined by Henry Schoolcraft for Lake Itasca, the true source of the Mississippi River, from Latin veritas (“truth”) and Latin caput (“head”).

Words formed from Itasca

Questions about Itasca

What does Itasca mean?
Itasca means a village in DuPage County, Illinois.
What part of speech is Itasca?
Itasca is a proper noun.

Words near Itasca in the dictionary

  1. itardan
  2. itardans
  3. iTards
  4. Itarsi
  5. itas
  6. Itasca
  7. Itasca County
  8. itasetron
  9. itasha
  10. itashas
  11. itatartaric

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