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Houston

[ hyoo-stuhn ]

noun

  1. Sam(uel), 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
  2. a city in SE Texas: a port on a ship canal, about 50 miles (80 km) from the Gulf of Mexico.


Houston

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. an inland port in SE Texas, linked by the Houston Ship Canal to the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway: capital of the Republic of Texas (1837–39; 1842–45); site of the Manned Spacecraft Center (1964). Pop: 2 009 690 (2003 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Houston

  1. Largest city in Texas .
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Notes

A center of the oil industry and the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .
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Example Sentences

Reed, who grew up in Houston, uses colorful phrases and acknowledges the hard work it took to reach this point in his career.

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Nor were any cases filed in the big cities of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio or El Paso.

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These groups have been flocking to Dallas, Houston, Atlanta or Miami rather than California in search of opportunity.

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Selena’s path from performing at restaurants, clubs and weddings across South Texas to drawing record-breaking crowds at the Houston Astrodome, as a woman in Tejano music, wasn’t just aspirational — it was revolutionary.

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Scheffler demonstrated his finest golf of the year in Houston last week, where the world number one fired a second-round 62 en route to finishing second to Min Woo Lee at 19 under par.

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