Omaha

[oh-muh-haw, -hah]

noun

plural

Omahas ,

plural

Omaha .

1. a city in E Nebraska, on the Missouri River.

2. a member of a North American Indian people of northeastern Nebraska.

3. the Siouan language of the Omaha, mutually intelligible with Ponca.

4. Military.,  the World War II Allied code name for one of the five D-Day invasion beaches on France's Normandy coast, attacked by American troops.

Omaha

/ ˈəʊməˌhɑː /

noun

1. a city in E Nebraska, on the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs, Iowa: the largest city in the state; the country's largest livestock market and meat-packing centre. Pop: 404 267 (2003 est)

Omaha

1. Largest city in Nebraska.

Example Sentences

Her father, the late actor Henry Fonda, witnessed the lynching of a Black man during the 1919 Omaha race riots when he was 14, casting him into becoming a lifelong liberal.

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Powell and Waldron knew they wanted to take a stab at turning Manning’s sketch into a scripted series when Omaha Productions began exploring adaption options.

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The kid from Omaha who once needed counselling for his temper and who survived a shooting moved through the ring with a serene, almost unreadable focus.

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Despite the victory, the Omaha fighter did not rule out retiring after his 42nd straight professional win.

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The author was born in Omaha to Haitian immigrant parents, though Gay stresses that her path “wasn’t particularly difficult in that I grew up middle class and then upper middle class.”

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