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arizona
/ˌæɹɪˈzoʊnə/
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What does arizona mean?
proper noun
- A state in the southwestern United States, established 1912. Capital: Phoenix.
- Ellipsis of University of Arizona.
- Arizona Beverage Company, which sells its products under the name AriZona.
More meanings (10)
proper noun
- Arizona City, a census-designated place in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Burt County, Nebraska, United States.
- A locality in Manitoba, Canada.
- A municipality of Atlántida department, Honduras.
- A barangay of Midsayap, Cotabato, Philippines.
- A surname.
- (historical) A territory of the southwest Confederate (1862–1865) and United States of America (1863–1912), with its capitals at Tucson, Prescott, and Phoenix.
- (historical) A department of the northwest Second Mexican Empire (1863–1865), with its capital at Altar.
- (rare) A unisex given name.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌæɹɪˈzoʊnə/
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Cereus giganteus, the grim chief of the desert tribe, is often thirty or forty feet high in southern Arizona.
Under the clear rays of the Arizona moon lay Powell, his body fairly bristling with the hostile arrows of the braves.
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The cliff ruins in Arizona are not only found in the canons of the Colorado river, but also in many other places.
We presume very few will now question but what the buildings he here describes are ruined communal buildings, much like the structures in Arizona.
The Indians of the northwest coast make fish-hooks of epicea wood, and those of Arizona utilize for the same purpose the long spikes of the cactus.