Dakota

American  

[duh-koh-tuh] / dəˈkoʊ tə /

noun

1. a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889.

2. North Dakota or South Dakota.

3. the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.

4. 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.

5. Santee.

6. a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.

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Dakota British  

/ dəˈkəʊtə /

noun

1. a former territory of the US: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889

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Other Word Forms

• Dakotan adjective

Example Sentences

That popular film starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning stands as one of the most solid showcases of Washington’s edgy, magnetic screen presence, and director Tony Scott’s flashy, kinetic intensity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Another of Hoover's novels, Verity, is now being adapted as a film starring Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett and Anne Hathaway.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

In August 2025, the company also finalized a new lease agreement with CoreWeave for an additional 150-megawatt data center in North Dakota, bringing Applied Digital’s total anticipated contracted lease revenue to about $11 billion.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

North Dakota legislators, who legalized e-tabs in 2017, say they didn’t anticipate the games’ wild success or how closely manufacturers would model them after slot machines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

To detect the predicted solar neutrino flux, you need an immense amount of chlorine, so American physicists have poured a huge quantity of cleaning fluid into the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan