Shawnee
[ shaw-nee ]
/ ʃɔˈni /
noun, plural Shaw·nees, (especially collectively) Shaw·nee.
a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
a town in E Kansas.
a city in central Oklahoma.
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Origin of Shawnee
1720–30, Americanism; back formation from earlier Shawnese, Shawanese (construed as plural), reshaping (with -ese) of earlier Shawanoes (plural) < Munsee Delaware šá·wano·w (singular) < Shawnee ša·wano·ki Shawnees, literally, people of the south
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British Dictionary definitions for shawnees
Shawnee
/ (ʃɔːˈniː) /
noun
plural -nees or -nee a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Tennessee River
the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
Word Origin for Shawnee
C20: back formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee Shaawanwaaki people of the south, from shaawanawa south
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Cultural definitions for shawnees
Shawnees
[ (shaw-neez) ]
A tribe of Native Americans who inhabited Ohio, Indiana, and other parts of the Middle West during the early nineteenth century. The most famous Shawnee leader was Tecumseh, who joined with the British against the Americans during the War of 1812.
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