Paw·nee (pô-n  )n. pl. Pawnee or Paw·nees 1. a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the Platte River valley in south-central Nebraska and northern Kansas, with a present-day population in north-central Oklahoma. The Pawnee comprised a confederation of four relatively independent tribes living in permanent villages. b. A member of this people. 2. The Caddoan language of the Pawnee. [North American French Pani, of Illinois origin, ultimately of Siouan origin.] |
Pawnee [pɔːˈniː]
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1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -nees, -nee a member of a confederacy of related North American Indian peoples, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, now chiefly in Oklahoma
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of these peoples, belonging to the Caddoan family
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| Noun | 1. | Pawnee - a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma 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 |
| 2. | Pawnee - the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo |
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