Definitions for Seneca

Seneca Sen·e·ca

Spelling: [sen-i-kuh]
IPA: /ˈsɛn ɪ kə/

Seneca is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Seneca (aceens).

Definitions for Seneca

noun

  1. a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
  2. an Iroquoian language of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes.
  3. Lucius Annaeus [uh-nee-uh s] /əˌni əs/ (Show IPA), c4 b.c.–a.d. 65, Roman philosopher and writer of tragedies.

Origin of Seneca

From the New York Dutch word Sennecaas, etc., orig. applied to the Oneida and, more generally, to all the Upper Iroquois (as opposed to the Mohawk), probably

Examples for Seneca

Americans have joined in the journey from “Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.”

Two or three other passages from Seneca will be found without any reference.

Seneca is of opinion, that he was suspected to be as much given to wine as Arcesilaus.

No, that would be Baia, a popular Roman resort once described by Seneca the Younger as a “vortex of luxury” (sign me up).

Already had my son Seneca completed his course at the University.

Haven't you read the learned treatise that Seneca composed on anger?

In the film, Wes Bentley plays Seneca Crane, the head gamemaker.

Robert Herritt on a book that takes on everyone from Tom Friedman to Seneca—and yet remains surprisingly modest in its goal.

Seneca encouraged followers to possess the strength of immunity to setback, but never withheld his human touch.

Whenever she could, Susan stopped over in Seneca Falls for a visit.

Word Value for Seneca
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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