# Mississippi River

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The Mississippi (a major river passing through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, United States).

## Etymology
From Mississippi + river.
From Ojibwe misi-ziibi (“great river”); itself already containing the term "river" in Ojibwe.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mississippi-river