Yellowstone

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/ˈjɛləʊstəʊn/

proper noun

A national park of the USA, located in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A national park of the USA, located in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.

    Yellowstone itself remains the biggest headache, with noncamping accommodations limited to a handful of pricey lodges or cookie-cutter cabins...

    2008, Bradley Mayhew, Carolyn McCarthy, Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, page 258
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    Everything about China is super-sized: The five new parks, which in some cases stitched together an older patchwork of conservation zones, sprawl across more than 88,800 square miles of territory—a protected area more than 25 times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

    2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022
  2. A river that rises in the park before flowing through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, where it empties into the Missouri River.

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃wós
  3. Proto-Germanic*gelwaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*gelu
  5. Old Englishġeolu
  6. Middle Englishyelow
  7. Englishyellow
  8. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*steyh₂-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*stóyh₂nos
  11. Proto-Germanic*stainaz
  12. Proto-West Germanic*stain
  13. Old Englishstān
  14. Middle Englishston
  15. Englishstone
  16. EnglishYellowstone

From yellow + stone.

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APA

Yellowstone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yellowstone

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“Yellowstone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yellowstone. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yellowstone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yellowstone.

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