Ona
noun
a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
Onas
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pluralof Ona.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism.
From Time Magazine Archive
To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego.
From Time Magazine Archive
We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
William Penn was called "Onas," that being the word for feather-quill in the Mohawk dialect.
At present we are at a private Conference about News, and have something of this Sort to mention to our Brother Onas.'
From The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies by Sir George Thomas
