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NC

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A short form for the state North Carolina in the United States
  • noun
translation icon : Carolina del Norte
  • So it should be Charlotte, NC, where no one knows how to turn at all.
  • Durham, NC
  • Cary, NC
  • Duke University, NC

I grew up in Stonewall, Stonewall, NC United Methodist Church.

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Examples

  • Pepsi was created in New Bern, NC, by Caleb Bradham.

  • I'm going to be in Raleigh, NC this weekend.

    Theo Von

  • So we are in Charlotte, NC at the moment.

  • Yes, I'm Ben from Charlotte, NC and thank you.

  • I'm from Charlotte, NC Welcome to the show.

  • I'm from Charlotte, NC, and I have a dilemma.

  • Jan Karon lives in Blowing Rock, NC, and is the author of the best-selling Mitford novels.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research. Greensboro, NC: ELT, 1993.

    Academic text (1993)

  • State #15 was a pro Bullrider's event in Greensboro, NC, and the spectacle of an Italian girl from Long Island surrounded by a sea of cowboy hats.

    National Anthem Girl (2019)

  • I spent my summer vacation exploring the beautiful mountains of Blowing Rock, NC.

Synonyms

North Carolina
vsNC
131 1.0

A state in the southeast of the United States

uses a shortened abbreviation instead of the full name
N.C.
vsNC
1.6

A state in the southeast of the United States called North Carolina

uses initials without punctuation rather than with dots
Old North State
vsNC
7.3

A nickname for the state of North Carolina

is the standard abbreviation rather than a historical nickname
Tar Heel State
vsNC
6.8

A nickname for the state of North Carolina in the United States

serves as the official abbreviation instead of an informal nickname

Surface Forms

NC singular
NCs plural

Morphology

NC = North + Carolina (semi-transparent) = N + C

The form 'NC' is an initialism that directly represents the two-word proper name 'North Carolina', so knowledge of the base fully explains the abbreviation. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

NC is a short form made from the first letters of North and Carolina. Carolina was named after King Charles, so NC simply stands for the U.S. state 'North Carolina'.