DOWNSTATE meaning: Area outside major metropolitan regions

We found 15 dictionaries that define the word downstate:

General (14 matching dictionaries)

downstate: Merriam-Webster
downstate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
downstate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
downstate: Collins English Dictionary
Downstate, downstate: Wordnik
downstate: Wiktionary
downstate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
downstate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
downstate: Infoplease Dictionary
downstate: Dictionary.com
Downstate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
downstate: TheFreeDictionary.com
downstate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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downstate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (US) The southern region of certain US states, particularly Michigan, New York, and Illinois.
▸ noun:  A period during sleep when somebody is not primed and not ready to learn.
▸ adjective:  (US) Of the southern section of a state.
▸ adverb:  (US) To the southern section of a state.

Opposite:

upstate, northern, rural

Phrases:

Downstate New York, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Downstate Correctional Facility, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, more...

Adjectives:

small, rural, suny, york, big, popular, democratic, similar, republican, own, little

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