a state of the S central US: consists of an undulating plain in the west, the Bluegrass region in the centre, the Tennessee and Ohio River basins in the southwest, and the Appalachians in the east. Capital: Frankfort. Pop: 4 117 827 (2003 est). Area: 102 693 sq km (39 650 sq miles)
Abbreviation: Ken., Ky., (with zip code) KYa river in central Kentucky, rising in the Cumberland Mountains and flowing northwest to the Ohio River. Length: 417 km (259 miles)
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Ken•tuck•y
(kən tuk′ē),USA pronunciation n.
- Place Namesa state in the E central United States. 3,661,433;
40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Cap.: Frankfort. Abbr.: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky. - Place Namesa river flowing NW from E Kentucky to the Ohio River. 259 mi. (415 km) long.
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'Kentucky' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Appalachia
- Ashland
- Bluegrass Region
- Bluegrass State
- Boone
- Border States
- Bourbon
- Commonwealth
- Confederate Memorial Day
- Covington
- Crittenden Compromise
- Cumberland
- Cumberland Gap
- Cumberland Mountains
- Danville
- Derby
- Elizabethtown
- Erlanger
- Florence
- Fort Campbell
- Fort Knox
- Fort Thomas
- Frankfort
- Georgetown
- Glasgow
- Hatfield-McCoy Feud
- Henderson
- Hodgenville
- Hopkinsville
- Jeffersontown
- June grass
- Ken.
- Kentuck
- Kentuckian
- Kentucky Derby
- Kentucky bluegrass
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Kentucky fried
- Kentucky rifle
- Kentucky warbler
- Kentucky windage
- Ky.
- Lexington
- Louisville
- bluegrass
- bourbon
- bowling green
- brier
- burgoo
- burley