Alabama — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   Alibamu

2. A member of these people.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

Proper noun

1. A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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.”

   So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

2. A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.

3. A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.

   Synonyms

   Alibamu

4. A town in New York; named for the state.

Noun

1. a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama

   Broader terms

   MuskhogeanMuskogean

   Examples

   the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy

2. the Muskhogean language of the Alabama

   Synonyms

   Alabama language

   Broader terms

   MuskhogeanMuskhogean languageMuskogeanMuskogean language