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# kansas

«kansas» in Mova's school dictionary: **a state in the middle of the United States, famous for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

proper noun (Kansas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Kansas is a state in the middle of the United States, famous for flat prairies, wheat farms and tornadoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#m1)

2) Kansas City is the name of two cities next to each other, one in Kansas and a bigger one in Missouri. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography it is one of the 50 US states, in the Great Plains, with its capital in Topeka. In stories, Dorothy in «The Wizard of Oz» comes from Kansas and is carried away by a tornado. It is often used as a symbol of ordinary, plain American farmland. Phrase: «We're not in Kansas anymore» means «things are strange and new here».

### examples

- Kansas is in the middle of the United States. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x1)
- Dorothy lived on a farm in Kansas before the tornado. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x2)
- Kansas grows a lot of wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x3)
- The capital of Kansas is Topeka, not Kansas City. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x4)
- Tornadoes often happen in Kansas in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x5)
- My cousins live in Kansas City. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x6)
- When we arrived at the strange museum, Dad said, «We're not in Kansas anymore.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x7)
- Kansas is very flat, so you can see storms coming from far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/#x8)

### note

A proper noun, always written with a capital K («Kansas»); in this list it is in lower case only because all words are. Pronounced KAN-zus. Trap: the biggest Kansas City is in Missouri, not in Kansas. Arkansas is a different state and is said AR-kan-saw.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kansas» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kansas/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.