Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Illinois"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Illinois \Il`li*nois"\, n.sing. & pl. (Ethnol.)
A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied
the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Illinois
n 1: a Midwest state in north-central United States [syn: {Illinois},
{Prairie State}, {Land of Lincoln}, {IL}]
2: a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and
regions to the west [syn: {Illinois}]
3: the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami peoples
[syn: {Illinois}]
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