Nevada

[ nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh ]

noun

1. a state in the western United States. 110,540 sq. mi. (286,300 sq. km). : Carson City. : NV (for use with zip code), Nev.

Nevada

/ nɪˈvɑːdə /

noun

1. a state of the western US: lies almost wholly within the Great Basin, a vast desert plateau; noted for production of gold and copper. Capital: Carson City. Pop: 2 241 154 (2003 est). Area: 284 612 sq km (109 889 sq miles) AbbreviationNev.with zip codeNV

Nevada

1. State in the western United States bordered by Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah and Arizona to the east, and California to the south and west. Its capital is Carson City, and its largest city is Las Vegas .

Notes

Long known as a center of gambling.

Other Words From

• Ne·vadan Ne·vadi·an adjective noun

Example Sentences

In Nevada, Lysa Buonanno, who is missing part of her right lung, knows there’s little chance her weakened immune system would save her from a bout of covid-19.

From Washington Post

Last April, the organizers of Burning Man—the anything-goes music festival that typically draws 80,000 attendees for a week of communal living in the Nevada desert—canceled all in-person revelry because of the pandemic.

From Quartz

When we first meet Fern in Nomadland, she’s living in a van and working at an Amazon Warehouse in Nevada.

From Time

The five victims of the Nevada crash were numbers 661 through 666 in our database.

From Outside Online

Somewhere like Nevada’s uncrowded Great Basin National Park, a designated International Dark Sky Park and host to its own annual astronomy festival each September.

From Outside Online

A petition has been delivered in Nevada that will put a similar measure to the one in Washington on the ballot in 2016.

From The Daily Beast

It had more petition signatures than any previous Nevada ballot initiative.

From The Daily Beast

Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.

From The Daily Beast

But some of his pickup methods might actually be criminal, according to the state of Nevada.

From The Daily Beast

Hispanic Republican moderate Brian Sandoval just won a landslide reelection in Nevada.

From The Daily Beast

"That explosion sure didn't look like the pictures I've seen of shots in Nevada," Rick told him.

From Project Gutenberg

It took him several minutes to get himself back from the Nevada fight to the hospital in New York.

From Project Gutenberg

I don't feel quite easy about those youths—away out there in Nevada without their Testaments!

From Project Gutenberg

He proceeds to recommend California as a residence for any or all of them, but he is clearly doubtful concerning Nevada.

From Project Gutenberg

Carson City, the capital of Nevada, was a "wooden town," with a population of two thousand souls.

From Project Gutenberg