a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas | a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri |
a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri | a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union |
| the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis |
| a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri |