From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
Mississippi
n 1: 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 [syn: Mississippi,
Mississippi River]
2: a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the
Confederate States during the American Civil War [syn:
Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS]