Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun illinois

3 senses of illinois

Sense 1
Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, IL -- (a midwestern state in north-central United States)
       INSTANCE OF=> American state -- (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Sense 2
Illinois -- (a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 3
Illinois -- (the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)