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CHICKASAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chickasaw mean? 

CHICKASAW (noun)
  The noun CHICKASAW has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippiplay

2. the Muskhogean language of the Chickasawplay

  Familiarity information: CHICKASAW used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHICKASAW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chickasaw" is a kind of...):

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Chickasaw" is a kind of...):

Muskhogean; Muskhogean language; Muskogean; Muskogean language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States)


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