Shawnee

Shaw·nee  (shô-n)

n. pl. Shawnee or Shaw·nees

1.

a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio valleys, with present-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

b. A member of this tribe.

2. The Algonquian language of the Shawnee.

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[Back-formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee shaawanooki, those of the south, Shawnee.]

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Shawnee [ʃɔːˈniː]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -nees, -nee a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Tennessee River

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

[back formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee Shaawanwaaki people of the south, from shaawanawa south]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Shawnee - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river 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.	Shawnee - the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains