Oto
noun
a member of a Siouan-speaking tribe of North American Indians who formerly inhabited the lower Missouri River basin and now live in Oklahoma.
Otos
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pluralof Oto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He and most of the 2,000 other Kaws, Pawnees, Otos and Osages present had come in first-class automobiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then after Leda to my vision came the wife of Aloeus, Iphimedeia, proud that she once had held the flowing sea and borne him sons, thunderers for a day, the world-renowned Otos and Ephialtes.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
The remainder of the people saved themselves among the Otos, on the southwest banks, where their descendants still live, mingled with the natives.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
They stayed ten days, to rest; then the Otos gave them each a pony, and in two more weeks they were home.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
From the Illinois, and from lesser posts among the Osages, Missouris, and Kansas, traders worked among these tribes, the Iowas, Otos, Pawnees of the Platte, and other more northern bands of Indians.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
