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tristate

tristate

4 5.6
An area where the borders of three states meet
  • noun
  • /ˈtraɪˌsteɪt/
  • US
translation icon : área tristate
  • Word got out, suddenly every puppy in the tristate area is scratching at my door.
  • tristate area

Examples

  • The community event attracted visitors from across the tristate region.

  • And the networking left behind, when it came down to it, was in-house academic and career opportunities in the tristate area.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Heavy rain continues to batter the tristate area.

    The River (1984)

  • If that happens, I will search every Blimpie's in the tristate area until I track you down.

    The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

  • There'll be rain over the tristate area and increasing fog.

    Small Time Crooks (2000)

  • Cincinnati News, Breaking News, and Sports for the Cincinnati area, Ohio, northern Kentucky, Indiana, and the tristate area.

    Blog text (25)

  • Today, numerous brotherhoods hold processions throughout the Tristate area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and in cities such as Toronto, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Miami.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The weather forecast predicts rain for the entire tristate area this weekend.

  • Many businesses in the tristate area offer discounts to local residents.

Surface Forms

tristate singular
tristates plural

Morphology

tristate = state (transparent) = tri + state

Built by productive prefixation 'tri-' + 'state' to denote an area involving three states; the geographic sense is directly inferred.

Etymology

Tristate comes from tri- 'three' and state 'region' or 'state'. A helpful image is three states touching at one place, so a tristate area is a place shared by three U.S. states.