Alabama

plural Alabamas · alternative pronunciation spelling Alabammer

1. countableuncountableAn indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.First known use 1708

   Synonyms: Alibamu

2. countableuncountableA member of these people.

alternative pronunciation spelling Alabammer

1. A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.

   So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

   2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2015

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   That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”

   2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

2. A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
3. A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.

   Synonyms: Alibamu

4. A town in New York; named for the state.
5. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of University of Alabama.

   Synonyms: Bama, Tuscaloser