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Lone Star State

Lone Star State proper noun: official nickname for Texas: a state of the United States.

lone star state: official nickname for Texas: a state of the United States
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Proper noun

the Lone Star State

  1. Official nickname for Texas: a state of the United States.
    • Like other parts of the great Lone Star State, this section of Texas was a world in itself.1915, Zane Grey, chapter 15, in The Lone Star Ranger
    • The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times

Forms of Lone Star State

alternative formLone-Star State
alternative formLonestar State

Questions about Lone Star State

What does Lone Star State mean?
Lone Star State means official nickname for Texas: a state of the United States.
What part of speech is Lone Star State?
Lone Star State is a proper noun.

Words near Lone Star State in the dictionary

  1. lone ranger
  2. lone rangering
  3. lone rangers
  4. Lone Scout
  5. Lone Scouts
  6. Lone Star State
  7. Lone Star Stater
  8. lone star tick
  9. lone star ticks
  10. lone wolf
  11. lone wolfer

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