SHAWNEE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Shawnee mean?
• SHAWNEE (noun)
The noun SHAWNEE has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
Familiarity information: SHAWNEE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SHAWNEE (noun)
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Shawnee" is a kind of...):
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)
Instance hyponyms:
Pontiac (famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769))
Tecumseh; Tecumtha (a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813))
Meaning:
The Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Shawnee" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
