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SHAWNEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shawnee mean? 

SHAWNEE (noun)
  The noun SHAWNEE has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee riverplay

2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawneeplay

  Familiarity information: SHAWNEE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHAWNEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Instance hyponyms:

Pontiac (famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769))

Tecumseh; Tecumtha (a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813))


Sense 2

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)


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