Cherokee
Americannoun
plural
Cherokees,plural
Cherokee-
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.
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the Iroquoian language of the Cherokee, written since 1822 in a syllabic script invented for the language by Sequoya.
noun
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a member of a Native American people formerly living in and around the Appalachian Mountains, now chiefly in Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois peoples
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the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
Example Sentences
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“It takes away a little bit of the handling,” the North Canton, Ohio resident said of his 2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee as it starts back up.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
A member of the Cherokee Nation, the 48-year-old Republican senator from the central state of Oklahoma is currently the only Native American serving in the US Senate.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
A member of the Cherokee Nation, he’s rich, having taken over, expanded, and then sold what was originally his father’s plumbing business.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026
Divers with the Cherokee County Fire Department recovered a body from the water shortly before noon local time Friday, the statement said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
People in the Cherokee hills were so scared of hydrophobia they didn’t talk about it in loud voices.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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