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Prairie State

Prairie State proper noun: official nickname for Illinois: a state of the United States.

Proper noun

the Prairie State

  1. Official nickname for Illinois: a state of the United States.

Questions about Prairie State

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

Words near Prairie State in the dictionary

  1. prairie skirt
  2. prairie skirts
  3. prairie smoke
  4. prairie star
  5. prairie stars
  6. Prairie State
  7. Prairie Stater
  8. prairie stream
  9. prairie streams
  10. prairie turnip
  11. prairie turnips

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