Alabama

[ al-uh-bam-uh ]

noun

1. a state in the southeastern United States. 51,609 sq. mi. (133,670 sq. km). : Montgomery. : AL (for use with zip code), Ala.
2. a river flowing southwest from central Alabama to the Mobile River. 315 miles (505 km) long.

Alabama

/ ˌæləˈbæmə /

noun

1. a state of the southeastern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: consists of coastal and W lowlands crossed by the Tombigbee, Black Warrior, and Alabama Rivers, with parts of the Tennessee Valley and Cumberland Plateau in the north; noted for producing cotton and white marble. Capital: Montgomery. Pop: 4 500 752 (2003 est). Area: 131 333 sq km (50 708 sq miles) AbbreviationAlawith zip codeAL
2. a river in Alabama, flowing southwest to the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers. Length: 507 km (315 miles)

Alabama

1. State in the southeastern United States bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Its capital is Montgomery, and its largest city is Birmingham .

Notes

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .

Other Words From

• Al·a·bam·i·an [al-, uh, -, bam, -ee-, uh, n], Al·a·bam·an adjective noun

Example Sentences

In 2016, Alabama was ordered to pay back $72 million intended for rural nursing homes owned by public hospitals, but that the state mostly kept for itself.

From ProPublica

In that scenario, even if every Senate race went the same way as the presidential election, Democrats would still come up one seat short, picking up Maine, Colorado and Arizona but losing Jones’s seat in Alabama.

From FiveThirtyEight

In 2017, he accessed public voting records and hand-wrote 1,000 letters to Alabama voters, urging them to vote in a special election for a US Senate seat.

From MIT Technology Review

Crop yields will be decimated from Texas to Alabama and all the way north through Oklahoma and Kansas and into Nebraska.

From ProPublica

Alabama, Auburn and Georgia are expected to bring in at least 17,000 fans for home games, while Texas A&M is anticipating more than 25,000.

From FiveThirtyEight

For their trip to New Orleans against Alabama, Ohio State is bringing in a cool $17 million.

From The Daily Beast

South Carolina and Alabama courts have already ruled late-pregnancy substance abuse can be considered a form of child abuse.

From The Daily Beast

In Alabama, an arrested 19-year-old shoplifter got gangrene and died naked on the floor of a “medical observation cell.”

From The Daily Beast

Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Brown seems to believe that this is simply another example of a systemic overhaul.

From The Daily Beast

Since the spill, the number of unemployed residents in Louisiana and Alabama has only increased.

From The Daily Beast

Tornadoes occurred in Alabama, Missouri and Illinois, accompanied with extensive damage to property.

From Project Gutenberg

The story of the intended mutiny was well founded, and was only one phase of the general feeling of unrest throughout Alabama.

From Project Gutenberg

Alabama was forced out through the treason of Jerry Clemens and others.

From Project Gutenberg

Archer shifted the Fifth Alabama from his right to his left, (p. 166) but was not able to stop the advancing Yankees.

From Project Gutenberg

To the brave Alabama boys, our opponents on this battlefield, whose memory we honor, this tablet is dedicated.

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