IA (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

abbreviation
  1. Iowa (approved especially for use with zip code).
  1. a noun suffix having restricted application in various fields, as in names of diseases (malaria; anemia), placenames (Italia; Romania), names of Roman feasts (Lupercalia), Latin or Latinizing plurals (Amphibia; insignia; Reptilia), and in other loanwords from Latin (militia).
abbreviation
  1. in absentia.
abbreviation
  1. Iowa.
suffix forming nouns
  1. occurring in place names
  2. occurring in names of diseases and pathological disorders
  3. occurring in words denoting condition or quality
  4. occurring in names of botanical genera
  5. occurring in names of zoological classes
  6. occurring in collective nouns borrowed from Latin
abbreviation for
  1. Iowa
IA (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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