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Texas

proper noun

  1. American state
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛk.səs/ / /ˈtɛk.sɪs/ / /ˈtɛk.sɪz/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.

  1. A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

    “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.”

  2. Several places in the United States:
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  11. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Queensland town.
  12. A rural town in southeastern Queensland, Australia, adjacent to the New South Wales locality.
  13. The University of Texas at Austin.
  14. A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
  15. A former sovereign country in North America that existed from 1836 to 1846.
  16. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

  1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.

    “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.”