Wisconsin

Meaning

Proper Noun

• state in the Upper Midwest region of the USA (country).
• A river in the United States that flows from northern Wisconsin (state) into the river, Mississippi.
• University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Origin

• The word has its origins in the name given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking American Indian groups living in the region at the time of European contact, the Menominee Wēskōhsek-Sēpēw ("A Good Place to Live River"); borrowed into French as Ouisconsin by French explorers.