Huron

[ hyoor-uhn, -onor, often, yoor- ]

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noun

a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
an Iroquoian language, the language of the Huron Indians.
Lake, a lake between the U.S. and Canada: second largest of the Great Lakes. 23,010 sq. mi. (59,595 sq. km).
a city in E South Dakota.

Huron

/ ˈhjʊərən /

Lake Huron
a lake in North America, between the US and Canada: the second largest of the Great Lakes. Area: 59 570 sq km (23 000 sq miles)
-rons-ron a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in the region east of Lake Huron
the Iroquoian language of this people

Origin of Huron¹

An Americanism dating back to 1625–35

As an example of the new knowledge, the Port Huron statement endorsed the development of nuclear power.

When he was thirteen he and his father rescued the passengers of a crippled boat on Lake Huron.

Munro grew up in the thirties in small towns around Lake Huron in Canada.

Mama, her first novel, paid homage to her hard-working mother, who raised five children in Port Huron, Michigan.

The associate tells Joe that he ran into an old buddy and went fishing at Lake Huron.

It had before formed a link, as it were, in the traverse of this part of the lake (Huron) in canoes to old Mackinac.

The clear waters of Lake Huron bubbled and seethed as they were cut by the bow of the swift little motor-boat.

The "demon" in Huron faith may also be earlier than the religious regard paid to his home, the sky.

I was fortunate in having a comparatively short distance to travel between Huron and this city.

The defeated party, to even up matters, was given the northern peninsula between Superior and Huron, now her richest section.

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