downstate

/noun, adverb doun-steyt; adjective doun-steyt/US // noun, adverb ˈdaʊnˈsteɪt; adjective ˈdaʊnˌsteɪt //UK // (ˈdaʊnˌsteɪt) US //

下州,州下,北部地区,州下级

Definitions

n.名词 noun

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : located in or characteristic of this part: The downstate precincts reported early.

adv.副词 adverb

1
- : in, to, or into the downstate area: We're going downstate for the holidays.

When we first started dating the pandemic hit, so we really haven’t been anywhere except a visit to his family about four hours away for house-sitting and visiting his parents downstate.
Both states are losing residents in their redder, rural areas — upstate for New York and downstate for Illinois.
She was born in the downstate Illinois town of Blue Mound in 1972 and still carries traces of the Midwest in her voice.
Like the Korean Peninsula, Illinois is cleft into two parts: Chicagoland and “downstate.”
The downstate economy has always been shielded by finance and banking, the biggest players headquartered in New York City.
The cornfield districts downstate will go strongly Republican.