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North Carolina

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Noun

1. nc, north carolina, old north state, tar heel state

a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

2. north carolina

one of the British colonies that formed the United States

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

North Carolina

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noun
a state of the southeastern US, on the Atlantic: consists of a coastal plain rising to the Piedmont Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains in the west. Capital: Raleigh. Pop: 8 407 248 (2003 est). Area: 126 387 sq km (48 798 sq miles)
. Abbreviation: N.C. or ()in with zip code NC

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North Carolina

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state of the SE U.S.: one of the 13 original states; 48,711 sq mi (126,161 sq km); pop. 8,049,000; cap. Raleigh
abbrev. NC or N.C.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

North Carolina

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Abbr. NC or N.C.
A state of the southeast United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was settled by colonists from Virginia in the mid-1600s, was part of the province of Carolina until 1691, and became a separate British colony in 1711. North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution in 1789. It seceded in May 1861 and was readmitted to the Union in 1868. The state has long been a center of tobacco growing and processing. Raleigh is the capital and Charlotte the largest city.

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