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Shawnee

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Noun

1. shawnee

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

2. shawnee

the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shawnee

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noun
1. plural -nees or -nee
a member of a Native American people formerly living along the Tennessee River
2. 
the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Shawnee

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noun
1. Word forms: plural Shawˈnees or Shawˈnee
a member of a North American Indian people living at various times in the East and Midwest, and now chiefly in Oklahoma
2. 
the Algonquian language of this people

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

Shawnee

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n. pl. Shawnee or Shaw·nees
1. 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 1700s and early 1800s.
2. The Algonquian language of the Shawnee.

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