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Meaning of Texas | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈtɛk.səs

Definitions

  1. A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.
  2. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
  3. Several places in the United States:
  4. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
  5. A hamlet in Oswego County, New York.
  6. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Alabama.
  7. An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
  8. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
  9. An unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi.
  10. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
  11. An unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia.
  12. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Queensland town.
  13. A rural town in southeastern Queensland, Australia, adjacent to the New South Wales locality.
  14. The University of Texas at Austin.
  15. A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
  16. A former sovereign country in North America that existed from 1836 to 1846.

Equivalents

العربية تكساس
Čeština Texas
Deutsch Texas
Ελληνικά Τέξας
Suomi Teksas Texas
Français Texas
עברית טקסס
Italiano Texas
日本語 テキサス
Polski Teksas
Português Texas
Svenska Texas
Українська Техас техаський

Examples

“The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]”
“Approximately 100 Louisville-based KFC corporate employees will relocate to Texas over the next six months.”
“She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.”
“Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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