Nebraska
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- proper noun
- /nəˈbræskə/
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Nebraska
- I went to the University of Nebraska... where I majored in Theater and Communications.
- University of Nebraska
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- the state of Nebraska
He's on the run out of Nebraska for check fraud.
- He's on the run out of Nebraska for check fraud.
- You go into Purdue at Nebraska, we're going to beat Purdue.
- If you're in Nebraska, it probably will.
- So in places like South Dakota, the Dakotas, perhaps parts of Nebraska, if you go down that way.
- Allison from Nebraska asks, what if I cannot learn to meditate?
- That's what we call people that live like way on the West side of Nebraska and they live on the Sandhills out there.
- This is the high school, you know, like I went from Memphis to Nebraska and like, you know, like I went to different high schools.
- And I wound up going out to Nebraska with them with her.
- What up Tanner and from Nebraska baby.
- If somebody else wants to put a fence around Nebraska, that's their property.
- It's so much talent in Omaha and Nebraska, but they don't want to recruit in house.
Examples
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These were Democratic senators who wanted Kansas and Nebraska to become states.
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Despite its new commerce with Chicago, Nebraska was still an extremely remote place in the 1890s.
Fiction book (1999) -
I said, excuse me, this is Nebraska, right?
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Well, do you want to go to Nebraska?
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Dark nights, he stayed in the Governor's Suite of the Nebraska Hotel.
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The rural nature and lack of other internship opportunities in Nebraska also contributed to this decision.
Academic text (1991) -
UNK is located in rural Nebraska, and that makes the school partnerships rather unique.
Academic text (2008) -
Emmett's father is a farmer outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and his mother is a teacher's assistant.
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I started first grade in Omaha, Nebraska, and second grade in Port Jervis, New York.
Fiction book (1991) -
I visited Nebraska last summer, and I loved the wide-open spaces and friendly people.
Synonyms
A nickname for Nebraska, the US state known for corn farming
Compounds
A public university in Lincoln, Nebraska, that does research and is the main campus of the state university system
- Specialized
A plant with large fern-like leaves that is very poisonous and grows in wet places
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nebraska comes from an Otoe word meaning 'flat water', a name given for the wide, shallow Platte River that runs through the area. That's why the state's name fits its flat plains and many rivers.