yellowstone
/ˈjɛləʊstəʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.28 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river that rises in the park before flowing through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, where it empties into the Missouri River.
name
A nickname for the 2-8-8-4 locomotive configuration.
Example Sentences
- "Yellowstone itself remains the biggest headache, with noncamping accommodations limited to a handful of pricey lodges or cookie-cutter cabins..."
- "Everything about China is super-sized: The five new parks, which in some cases stitched together an older patchwork of conservation zones, sprawl across more than 88,800 square miles of territory—a protected area more than 25 times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós Proto-Germanic *gelwaz Proto-West Germanic *gelu Old English ġeolu Middle English yelow English yellow Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nos Proto-Indo-European *stóyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone English Yellowstone From yellow + stone.