"Kansas" meaning in English

See Kansas in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈkænzəs/ Audio: en-us-Kansas.ogg [US] Forms: Kansases [plural], Kan. [abbreviation], Kans. [abbreviation], Ks. [abbreviation]
Rhymes: -ænzəs Etymology: From a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa; related to Arkansas, which see for more information. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sio|-}} Siouan Head templates: {{en-prop|+|abbr=Kan.,Kans.,Ks.}} Kansas (plural Kansases, abbreviation Kan. or Kans. or Ks.)
  1. A state of the midwest United States. Capital: Topeka. Largest city: Wichita. Wikidata QID: Q1558 Categories (place): Places in the United States, States of the United States Synonyms: Sunflower State, Jayhawker State Translations (US state): كَانْسَاس (kānsās) [masculine] (Arabic), Ка́нзас (Kánzas) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 堪薩斯州 /堪萨斯州 (Kānsàsī-zhōu) (Chinese Mandarin), Kansas [masculine] (Czech), Kansas (Danish), Kansaso (Esperanto), Kansas (Finnish), Kansas (Galician), კანზასი (ḳanzasi) (Georgian), Kansas (German), Κάνσας (Kánsas) [neuter] (Greek), केन्सास (kensās) [masculine] (Hindi), कैंसास (kainsās) [masculine] (Hindi), Kansas (Hungarian), Kansas [masculine] (Italian), カンザス州 (Kanzasu-shū) (Japanese), កាន់សាស់ (kansah) (Khmer), 캔자스 (Kaenjaseu) (Korean), ແຄນຊັດ (khǣn sat) (Lao), Kansas (Limburgish), Канзас (Kanzas) [masculine] (Macedonian), Kansas (Maltese), Kénsis hahoodzo (Navajo), Kansas [neuter] (Polish), Kansas [masculine] (Portuguese), Cansas [masculine] (Portuguese), Канза́с (Kanzás) [masculine] (Russian), Ка́нзас (Kánzas) [masculine] (Russian), Kansas [masculine] (Spanish), Kansas (Tagalog), แคนซัส (kɛn-sás) (Thai), ཁན་སཱ་སི (khan sā si) (Tibetan), Kansas (Turkish), Канза́с (Kanzás) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Kansës (Unami), קענזעס (kenzes) (Yiddish)
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  2. A river in northeast Kansas. Categories (place): Places in Kansas, USA, Places in the United States, Rivers in Kansas, USA, Rivers in the United States
    Sense id: en-Kansas-en-name-WLDJljSe
  3. Ellipsis of University of Kansas. Wikidata QID: Q52413 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: University of Kansas Synonyms: KU Coordinate_terms: Kansas State, KSU
    Sense id: en-Kansas-en-name-en:Q52413 Categories (other): Universities Disambiguation of Universities: 37 1 61 1
  4. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Kansas-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Jayhawk, jayhawker

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.