Yellowstone

English

Etymology

From yellow +‎ stone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛləʊstəʊn/

Proper noun

Yellowstone

1. A national park of the USA, located in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
   • 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Carolyn McCarthy, Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, page 258:

     Yellowstone itself remains the biggest headache, with noncamping accommodations limited to a handful of pricey lodges or cookie-cutter cabins...

   • 2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic‎^[1]:

     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.

2. A river that rises in the park before flowing through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, where it empties into the Missouri River.
3. A nickname for the 2-8-8-4 locomotive configuration.

Derived terms

• Yellowstone County