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Noun: Arkansas  'aa(r)-kun,so
  1. A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    - Land of Opportunity, AR, Ark.
     
  2. A river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River
    - Arkansas River

Type of: American state, river

Part of: America, Centennial State, CO, Colo., Colorado, Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, Kan., Kansas, KS, OK, Okla., Oklahoma, Sooner State, South, Sunflower State, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

Encyclopedia: Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad