Cayuga
noun
a member of a tribe of North American Indians, the smallest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Cayugas
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pluralof Cayuga.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ranged across what is now upstate New York, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas had recently forged a “covenant chain” of alliance with several English colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
These two nations and the Senecas were called brothers; while the intermediate Oneidas and Cayugas were always spoken of as nephews, because they were younger and less important nations, with fewer oyanders.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
"Can you not see that Colonel Cresap is driving the Cayugas into the King's ranks?"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Although an Iroquois, and possibly of the Cayuga tribe, yet he differed from our own Cayugas.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
I must give up my visit to the Cayugas for the present.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
