| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Shawnee |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Shaw·nee |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  shô-n  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. Shawnee or Shaw·nees
1a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio valleys, with present-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. b. A member of this tribe. 2. The Algonquian language of the Shawnee. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Back-formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee shaawanooki, those of the south, Shawnee.
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