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n. pl. Seneca or Sen·e·cas

a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting western New York from Seneca Lake to Lake Erie, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Seneca are the westernmost member of the original Iroquois confederacy.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Iroquoian language of the Seneca.

[From Dutch Sennecaas, probably of Mahican origin.]

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Known as "the Younger." 4 b.c.?-a.d. 65.

Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, and tutor of Nero. His works include treatises on rhetoric and governance and numerous plays that influenced Renaissance and Elizabethan drama.

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