Miami

¹

[ mahy-am-ee, -am-uh ]

noun

, plural Mi·am·is, (especially collectively) Mi·am·i

1. a member of an Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe, formerly located in northern Indiana and Illinois, southern Michigan, and possibly Wisconsin, now living primarily in Oklahoma.
2. their dialect of the Illinois language.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Miami or their language.

Miami

²

[ mahy-am-ee, -am-uh ]

noun

1. a city in SE Florida: seaside resort.
2. Also called Great Miami. a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 miles (260 km) long.
3. a city in NE Oklahoma.

Miami

/ maɪˈæmɪ /

noun

1. a city and resort in SE Florida, on Biscayne Bay: developed chiefly after 1896, esp with the Florida land boom of the 1920s; centre of an extensive tourist area. Pop: 376 815 (2003 est)

Miami

1. Best-known city in Florida .

Notes

Famed for its resort hotels.

Home of the largest Cuban population outside Cuba , many of them exiles from the regime of Fidel Castro .

Other Words From

• Mi·ami·an noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Miami¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; from French, from Illinois miamioua, myaamiwa “person from downstream”

Example Sentences

The whole world is running off to Miami for the Christmas holidays.

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He was going to have to start hitchhiking to Miami before it got dark.

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A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

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MIAMI — Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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Terrorists against Cuba who had once shot down passenger jets later found safe haven in Miami.

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Daylight appeared after we had crossed all of the principal suburban roads, and were near the Little Miami Railroad.

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It is near the mouth of the Miami River, a small stream which serves as an outlet to the overflow of the everglades.

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With a crash she struck the "Miami" a glancing blow on the port-bow, gouging off two great planks.

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I brought a young lieutenant with me from Miami; he was a crack stenographer in civilian life.

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His death occurred during the Chickasaw campaign ; while leading the Miami contingent he was captured and burned at the stake.

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