Mississippi

Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi (“great river”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/

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Mississippi

1. Ellipsis of State of Mississippi; A state of the United States of America. Capital: Jackson; postal abbreviation: MS
   • 2014 November 2, John Oliver, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, HBO:

     That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”

2. Ellipsis of Mississippi River; A major river in North America that rises in Minnesota and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi

1. Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
   • 1996, “Cheers & Jeers”, in Field and Stream, v 101, September, p 12:

     Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.

Mississippi (plural Mississippis)

1. A recitation of “Mississippi” (interjection).
   • 1997, George Clark, The Small Bees’ Honey: Stories, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, p 129:

     I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.

• (state): the Magnolia State, the Hospitality State (nicknames); MS / MS. / Ms. / Ms, Miss. / MISS. / MISS (abbreviations)
• (river): the Big Muddy (also used for the Missouri), Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Muddy Mississippi, Old Man River (nicknames)

• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
• Appendix:Place names in Mississippi
• Wikipedia article on the Mississippi River

Borrowed from English Mississippi.

Mississippi (genitive Mississippis)

1. Mississippi

Mississippi m

1. Mississippi (a river in the United States)
2. Mississippi (a state of the United States)

• Mississípi, Mississipi

Mississippi m

1. Mississippi (a river in the United States)
2. Mississippi (a state of the United States)