Search Result for "dixie":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861;
[syn: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland]
2. a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dixie \Dix"ie\ (d[i^]ks"[y^]), prop. n. 1. A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.] Syn: Dixieland, Dixie Land, the Confederacy, Confederate States of America, the South. Syn: . [1913 Webster] 2. a song popular in the Confederate states during the American Civil War, and still played as a nostalgic anthem by those patriotic to the American south. It was written by Daniel D. Emmett in 1859. [PJC] whistle Dixie to talk unrealistically; to engage in unrealistic or overoptimistic fantasies; as, that ain't just whistlin' Dixie. [PJC]U.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Dixie, GA Zip code(s): 31629 Dixie, ID Zip code(s): 83525 Dixie, KY Zip code(s): 41017 Dixie, LA Zip code(s): 71107 Dixie, WV Zip code(s): 25059Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "Dixie": Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, eastland, northland, the Coast, westland, wild West
