Definition of "Iowa"

Iowa

/ˈaɪəwə/

proper noun
1. A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.
  Quotations
  I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw it through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops.
  1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874–1920‎, New York: Macmillan Company, page 1
2. A tributary of the Mississippi River which flows through Iowa in a southeast direction.
3. A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
4. University of Iowa.
noun
plural Iowas
1. One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.