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| Shaw·nee [ shaw n ] (plural Shaw·nee or Shaw·nees) or Sha·wa·no [ shə wnō ] (plural Sha·wa·no or Sha·wa·nos) |
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1. member of Native N American people: a member of an Algonquian people who lived along the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, and now live mainly in Oklahoma
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2. language of Shawnee: the Algonquian language of the Shawnee people. Few people now speak Shawnee.
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| [Late 17th century. < Delaware ša:wano:w] |
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 Shaw·nee adjective |
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