St. Louis

[ seynt loo-is ]

noun

1. a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
2. a river in NE Minnesota, flowing generally S to Lake Superior at Duluth. 160 miles (257 km) long.

St. Louis

1. The largest city in Missouri .

Notes

Known as the “Gateway to the West” because of its importance as a staging area for wagon trains in the nineteenth century. The Gateway Arch, made of steel and several hundred feet high, stands in St. Louis in commemoration of this fact.