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Showing words for ILLINOIS using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Illinois

illinois, illision

6 Letter Words for Illinois

sillon

5 Letter Words for Illinois

ilion, insol, isoln, lilos, linos, lions, loins, nills, noils, nolls, oisin

4 Letter Words for Illinois

ills, ions, liin, lilo, lino, lins, lion, loin, loli, nill, nils, nisi, noil, noll, oils, sill, silo, siol, sion, slon, soil, soln

3 Letter Words for Illinois

iii, ill, ilo, ins, ion, ios, isl, isn, iso, lin, lis, los, nil, nis, nol, nos, oii, oil, ois, oni, ons, osi, sil, sin, sol, son

Definitions for Illinois

[1] a member of a confederacy of North American Indians of Algonquian stock, formerly occupying Illinois and adjoining regions westward.
[2] the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami Indians.
[3] a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital : Springfield. Abbreviation : IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
[4] a river flowing SW from NE Illinois to the Mississippi River: connected by a canal with Lake Michigan. 273 miles (440 km) long.
[5] a state of the N central US, in the Midwest: consists of level prairie crossed by the Illinois and Kaskaskia Rivers; mainly agricultural. Capital: Springfield. Pop: 12 653 544 (2003 est). Area: 144 858 sq km (55 930 sq miles) Abbreviation: Ill. , (with zip code) IL
[6] a river in Illinois, flowing SW to the Mississippi. Length: 439 km (273 miles)

Origin of Illinois

11715–25, Americanism ; < French, earlier Eriniouai, Ilinoués, etc., from an unidentified Algonquian language, apparently literally, “one who sounds normal” (i.e., “a person who speaks an Algonquian language”), equivalent to the (unattested) Proto-Algonquian elements elen- “ordinary” + -we “make sound”