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# mississippian

«mississippian» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person from the US state of Mississippi** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Mississippian); noun (a Mississippian, Mississippians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A Mississippian is a person from the US state of Mississippi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#m1)

2) The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilisation that built great earth mounds along the Mississippi valley, about 800 to 1600. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#m2)

3) (science) The Mississippian is a period of Earth's history about 359–323 million years ago, used in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Met in US geography, Native American history (the city of Cahokia) and geology about rock layers and coal.

### examples

- My cousin is a Mississippian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x1)
- The Mississippian people built huge earth mounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x2)
- Cahokia was the largest Mississippian city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x3)
- Coal formed in the Mississippian period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x4)
- Mississippian farmers grew corn and beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x5)
- A famous Mississippian writer is William Faulkner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mississippian/#x6)

### note

Capital M because it comes from a name. Spelling: double s, double s, double p: Mi-ss-i-ss-i-pp-ian.

### Trees and pragmatics

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