Munsee
[ muhn-see ]
/ ˈmʌn si /
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noun, plural Mun·sees, (especially collectively) Mun·see for 1.
a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
the Eastern Algonquian language of the Munsee and closely related peoples, originally spoken in the lower Hudson Valley and upper Delaware Valley.
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Words nearby Munsee
munnion, Muñoz Marín, Munro, Munroe, Munroe effect, Munsee, Munsell scale, Munsey, munshi, munster, Münsterberg
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How to use Munsee in a sentence
Governor Willem Kieft, eager to destroy Indigenous resistance to the colony, ordered assaults on sites where Munsee-speaking peoples had sought sanctuary.
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