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Siouan

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Noun

1. siouan, sioux

a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains

2. siouan, siouan language

a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux

Adjective

3. siouan

of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Siouan

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noun
1. 
a family of North American languages including Sioux, probably related to Iroquoian
adjective
2. 
of or relating to the Sioux peoples or languages

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Siouan

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noun
1. 
a family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken in the WC U.S., central Canada, and parts of Virginia and the Carolinas: it includes Iowa, Mandan, Dakota, Crow, Omaha, Hidatsa, Osage, etc.
adjective
2. 
designating or of this family of languages

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

Siouan

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n.
1. A large North American Indian language family spoken from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains and southward to Arkansas as well as in South Carolina.
2. A member of a Siouan-speaking people.

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