Dakota
a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889.
the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Also called Sioux. a member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains.
a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.
Other words from Dakota
- Da·ko·tan, adjective, noun
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How to use Dakota in a sentence
Drumheller noticed that Dakota’s skin had shrunk to surround the underlying bone.
Dinosaur ‘mummies’ may not be as rare as once thought | Jake Buehler | November 1, 2022 | Science News For StudentsAbout 67 million years ago, Dakota was a roughly 12-meter-long, duck-billed dinosaur that ate plants.
Dinosaur ‘mummies’ may not be rare flukes after all | Jake Buehler | October 12, 2022 | Science NewsIn Dakota’s design, a curtain of bubbles would span the river in a diagonal line.
Dakota’s idea was inspired by the Dutch Great Bubble Barrier in Amsterdam.
Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, her missionary-given and later married name, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist.
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Tim Mathern, a longtime North Dakota state Senator came to the event thinking that it was “all about licking our wounds.”
And Montana and South Dakota are basically red, of course, but are both elect Democrats sometimes.
Try Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, and Arkansas; what you might call a crimson tide.
One of the Midterms’ Little-Noticed Big Losers: The NRA | Cliff Schecter | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBallot initiatives to raise the minimum wage passed in four states: Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
Voters Remind D.C. That the Economy Still Sucks | Stuart Stevens | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThree of those Democratic incumbents represent Indiana, Montana, and North Dakota.
I worked in North Dakota, and had saved up and planned to come over and marry my sweetheart, who waited in Brussels for me.
Private Peat | Harold R. PeatThe native tribes of North Dakota are of three different linguistic stocks or races.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph GilmoreNorth Dakota has a number of places to which attach interesting legends and myths.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph GilmoreHe and all his men crept quietly in the darkness through the Dakota lines and escaped safely.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph GilmoreAbout sixty-six years ago such an attack was made by a war party of Dakota.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph Gilmore
British Dictionary definitions for Dakota
/ (dəˈkəʊtə) /
a former territory of the US: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889
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