Miami1
[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]
- a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family, formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan, and possibly Illinois, now extinct as a tribe.
- their dialect of the Illinois language.
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Miami2
[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]
- a city in SE Florida: seaside resort.
- Also called Great Miami. a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- a city in NE Oklahoma.
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Examples from the Web for miami
Contemporary Examples
The whole world is running off to Miami for the Christmas holidays.
He was going to have to start hitchhiking to Miami before it got dark.
A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.
MIAMI — Fidel Castro seized power in January 1959 after waging a guerilla war against then-dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Terrorists against Cuba who had once shot down passenger jets later found safe haven in Miami.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left BehindBrin-Jonathan Butler
December 19, 2014
Historical Examples
Had any Miami warriors fallen into the hands of these savages, awful would have been their doom.
But, however this may be, he found the Miami village in ashes, and all who dwelt in it dispersed.
He'll blacklist you in every yacht club from Bar Harbor to Miami.
Blow The Man DownHolman Day
Seeing this, the Miami whipped out his knife and stood on the defensive.
The Riflemen of the MiamiEdward S. Ellis
I wouldn't have missed all this experience for the finest farm in the Miami Valley.
The Red AcornJohn McElroy
Miami
- a city and resort in SE Florida, on Biscayne Bay: developed chiefly after 1896, esp with the Florida land boom of the 1920s; centre of an extensive tourist area. Pop: 376 815 (2003 est)
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Word Origin and History for miami
Miami
place name in U.S.; the one in Florida is of unknown origin, attested in Spanish as Maymi (1566), Mayaimi (1575). The one in Ohio is from the Miami, native people there, attested from 18c., apparently from a native word /myaamiwa "downstream person."
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Miami
Best-known city in Florida.
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Famed for its resort hotels.
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