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Definition of Everglade state
1. Noun. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
Terms within: Caloosahatchee Canal, Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park, Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Melbourne, Miami, Miami Beach, Orlando, Palm Beach, Panama City, Pensacola, Sarasota, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Capital Of Florida, Tallahassee, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Apalachicola, Apalachicola River, Biscayne Bay, Caloosahatchee, Caloosahatchee River, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Everglades, Cay, Florida Key, Key, Kissimmee, Kissimmee River, Lake Okeechobee, Okeechobee, Okefenokee Swamp, Saint Johns, Saint Johns River, St. Johns, St. Johns River, Tampa Bay
Generic synonyms: American State
Group relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa, Gulf States
Group relationships: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States Of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South
Lexicographical Neighbors of Everglade State
Literary usage of Everglade state
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camp-fire and Cotton-field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the by Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)
"The everglade state.—The Lower Mississippi Valley.—The Red River.—Arkansas and
its Advantages.—A Hint for Tragedians.— Mining in Tennessee. ..."
2. More about Names by Leopold Wagner (1893)
"... Spaniards, Foreigners, Rhody, Little Rhody, The Gulf States, The Peninsula
State, The everglade state, Fly-up-the-Creeks ; The Cotton Plantation State, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"the term "everglade state" being popularly applied to Florida. Within the state
there are many swamps, the largest of which are the Big Cypress Swamp in the ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Known both аз tho 'everglade state' and аз the 'Peninsula State.' The southernmost
State of the American ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Peninsular or everglade state, the most southern in the American Union and
second largest east of the Mississippi, lies between parallels 24*38' and 31° ..."
6. Significance of Names by Leopold Wagner (1893)
"... The Garden State, The State of Spain, Spaniards, Foreigners, Rhody, Little
Rhody, The Gulf States, The Peninsula State, The everglade state, ..."
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