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Dakotan

British  
/ dəˈkəʊtən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Dakota or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Dakota

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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For what it’s worth, this former North Dakotan certainly loved it.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Kalen DeBoer, a South Dakotan who cut his teeth in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, spent 2019 as the Hoosiers’ offensive coordinator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

While the dust settles around UW’s national coaching search, let’s get to know the 47-year-old South Dakotan and former head coach at Fresno State.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2021

This sense of impending danger continues as Elinor is undermined, second-guessed and transgressed upon as a woman, a North Dakotan, a writer and a biracial American.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

The work of Mr. Riggs and that of Mr. Dorsey, mentioned above, with the materials already published, will place the Dakotan languages on record more thoroughly than those of any other family in this country.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various

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