Cherokee

[cher-uh-kee, cher-uh-kee]

noun

plural

Cherokees ,

plural

Cherokee .

1. a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.

2. the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, written since 1822 in a syllabic script invented for the language by Sequoya.

Cherokee

/ ˌtʃɛrəˈkiː, ˈtʃɛrəˌkiː /

noun

1. a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family

Example Sentences

It will expand production of the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Compass, and reintroduce an entry-level version of its Ram 1500 pickup.

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Soon after, colleague Jay Caviness hooked a Jeep Grand Cherokee in a nearby town.

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“There’s been a degree of retreat from investing in rural Oklahoma,” said Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, which purchased a building for Provalus to lease.

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The video starts with a Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows tailing a dark gray truck before ramming the passenger door on the driver’s side.

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Footage from a trailing vehicle shows a red-and-brown Doberman pinscher, who later was euthanized, being dragged behind an older-model black Jeep Cherokee SUV on Wednesday around 5:45 p.m.

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