a state of the S central US: consists of an undulating plain in the west, the Bluegrass region in the centre, the Tennessee and Ohio River basins in the southwest, and the Appalachians in the east. Capital: Frankfort. Pop: 4 117 827 (2003 est). Area: 102 693 sq km (39 650 sq miles)
Abbreviation: Ken., Ky. or (with zip code) KY
2.
a river in central Kentucky, rising in the Cumberland Mountains and flowing northwest to the Ohio River. Length: 417 km (259 miles)
Kentucky in American English
(kənˈtʌki)
1.
state of the EC U.S.: admitted, 1792; 39,728 sq mi (102,896 sq km); pop. 4,042,000; cap. Frankfort
abbrev. KY or Ky
2.
river in E Ky., flowing northwest into the Ohio: 259 mi (417 km)
Word origin
earlier (18th c.) Kentucke (River), of Iroquois or Shawnee orig.
Examples of 'Kentucky' in a sentence
Kentucky
If these people were typical of the Kentucky crowd, it would surely be a good one.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
His funeral was scheduled to take place in his native Louisville, Kentucky.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Nothing that could happen in Kentucky would begin to match the pressure he withstood that week.