1. Missouri - Noun
2. Missouri - Proper noun
a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis
Source: WordNetI was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Abraham Lincoln
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. Francis Parkman
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz” but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner” so far as music is concerned. Harry S. Truman
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri. Tippi Hedren
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world. Ike Skelton
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' William Least Heat-Moon