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Noun: Alabama  ,a-lu'ba-mu
  1. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama
    "the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy"
     
  2. The Muskhogean language of the Alabama
    - Alabama language
     
  3. A river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River
    - Alabama River
     
  4. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    - Heart of Dixie, Camellia State, AL, Ala.

Type of: American state, Muskhogean, Muskhogean language, Muskogean, Muskogean language, river, South, Southern United States

Part of: America, Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Creek Confederacy, Deep South, Dixie, Dixieland, Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf States, South, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

Encyclopedia: Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad