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Mississippi

Speech parts

1. Mississippi - Noun

2. Mississippi - Interjection

3. Mississippi - Proper noun

Meaning

a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. Oprah Winfrey

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Matthew Arnold

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' Harold H. Greene

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. Ron Kind

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist. Seth Godin

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