Caddo

Cad·do  (kd)

n. pl. Caddo or Cad·dos

1.

a. A Native American confederacy composed of numerous small tribes formerly inhabiting the Red River area of Louisiana, Arkansas, and eastern Texas and now located in central Oklahoma.

b. A member of this confederacy.

2. The Caddoan language of the Caddo.

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[French, from Caddo kaduhd·u, a major tribe of the Caddo confederacy.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Caddo - a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America Aricara, Arikara - a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river Eyeish - a member of the Caddo people of northeastern Texas Kichai - a member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas Pawnee - a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma Wichita - a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas
	2.	Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Caddoan, Caddoan language American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians Aricara, Arikara - the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara Pawnee - the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee Wichita - the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita