Definitions for Shawnee

Shawnee Shaw·nee

Spelling: [shaw-nee]
IPA: /ʃɔˈni/

Shawnee is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in Shawnee (aeehnsw).

Definitions for Shawnee

noun

  1. a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
  2. the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
  3. a town in E Kansas.
  4. a city in central Oklahoma.

Origin of Shawnee

1720-30, Americanism; back formation from earlier Shawnese, Shawanese (construed as plural), reshaping (with -ese) of earlier Shawanoes (plural) Munsee Delaware šá·wan

Examples for Shawnee

Red Eagle, the Shawnee chief, was a statesman as well as a warrior.

Boone liked Chief Blackfish, but he did not really want to be a Shawnee.

Until I heard a Shawnee scalp-cry I could rest easy as to my companion.

He's a life member of the Shawnee Club—a life member, mind you!

But it was long after midnight now and the Shawnee Club would be closed.

The Shawnee hesitated, and Ahneota continued: “Has he declared war on the paleface?”

Red Eagle, the Shawnee chief, is a man who thinks, and a man who holds on.

He was a finely formed young man, about nineteen years of age, from the Shawnee tribe residing near the Scioto River.

The winner of the primary is likely to face Shawnee County district attorney Chad Taylor in November.

The Shawnee was paying a tribute to him, and he could not keep from hearing it.

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