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Iroquois

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Noun

1. iroquois

any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

2. iroquoian, iroquoian language, iroquois

a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Iroquois

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noun plural -quois
1. 
a member of any of a group of Native American peoples formerly living between the Hudson River and the St Lawrence and Lake Erie
See also Five Nations, Six Nations
2. 
any of the Iroquoian languages
adjective
3. 
of or relating to the Iroquois, their language, or their culture

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Iroquois

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noun
1. Word forms: plural ˈIroˌquois (ˈɪrəˌkwɔɪ ; irˈəkwoiˌ; ˈɪrəˌkwɔɪz ; irˈəkwoizˌ)
a member of a confederation of Iroquoian Indian peoples that lived in upstate New York and included the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks, and (after 1723) the Tuscaroras: their descendants live in New York, Ontario, Quebec, and Oklahoma
see also Five Nations
2. 
any of the languages spoken by the Iroquois
adjective
3. 
of the Iroquois or their languages or cultures

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Iroquois

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n. pl. Iroquois (-kwoi′, -kwoiz′)
1. A member of a Native American confederacy, known as the Iroquois League or the Iroquois Confederacy, inhabiting New York State and originally composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples, known as the Five Nations. After 1722 the confederacy was joined by the Tuscaroras to form the Six Nations.
2. Any or all of the languages of the Iroquois. In both senses also called Haudenosaunee.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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