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IL

1.4
A US state in the Midwest
  • noun
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  • The conference is being held in Springfield, IL, next month.

You know, I'm from Rockford, IL, you know, my parents are from Ghana and West Africa.

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Examples

  • Hi, my name is Catherine and I'm from Wheeling, IL just outside of Chicago.

  • I'm in a town called Frankfort, IL, which is a SW suburb of Chicago.

  • I mean, Reagan was born there at Lincoln, IL and you know what else?

  • Next is from Amy in Columbia, IL Oh, look at that color combination.

  • We're from Chicago, IL Good mythical morning.

  • So Carter Glass, Chicago, IL kids in the stocks and bonds.

  • There was a woman who had a book in Rockford, IL Yeah.

  • I grew up in Wheaton, IL so I was born close to there with my mom in the room.

  • Springfield, IL drove up quite a ways.

  • And then when I got out, we moved to to Chicago, to Evanston, IL, which sort of Northwestern is.

Synonyms

Illinois
vsIL
405 1.0

A US state in the Midwest with the city Chicago and different landscapes

is the shortened form used instead of the full state name
4.4

A nickname for Illinois in the United States because Abraham Lincoln lived there

is the neutral official designation rather than a historic nickname
Prairie State
vsIL
  • US
4.7

A nickname for the state of Illinois because of its wide prairie land

names the state without the landscape-based nickname connotation

Idioms

comme il faut
  • Formal
1 9.9

Proper and polite in a way accepted by society

Compounds

1 9.9

The title used by Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945

Il Duce
  • Offensive
9.9

A name people use to compare a political leader to Mussolini as a dictator

Surface Forms

IL singular
ILs plural

Etymology

IL is the US postal abbreviation for Illinois, taken from the state's name as a short form used on addresses and forms. That's why you see IL after a city name on mail and in lists of places.