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Mohican

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Mo·hi·can  (m-hkn, m-)
n.
Variant of Mahican.

mohican [məʊˈhiːkən]
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a person wearing such a hairstyle

Mohican [ˈməʊɪkən məʊˈhiːkən], Mahican [məˈhiːkən]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -cans, -can a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.MohicanMohican - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
2.MohicanMohican - the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican
Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
Translations
Mohican [məʊˈhiːkən] N (Mohicans or Mohican (pl))
1. (= Native American) → mohicano/a m/f
2. (= hairstyle) → cresta f mohicana
Mohican
n
Mohikaner(in) m(f)
mohican (Brit: = haircut) → Irokesenschnitt m

mohican
n (Brit: = haircut) → Irokesenschnitt m


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The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.
The idea of the story had suggested itself to him, we are told, before he had finished its immediate forerunner, "The Last of the Mohicans.
Of the Lenni Lenape, or as they were called by the whites, from the circumstances of their holding their great council-fire on the banks of that river, the Delaware nation, the principal tribes, besides that which bore the generic name, were the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes.
 
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