Definitions for shawnees

shawnees Shaw·nee

Spelling: [shaw-nee]
IPA: /ʃɔˈni/

Shawnees is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in shawnees (aeehnssw).

Definitions for shawnees

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 shawnees

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 shawnees

He asked how many men Boone could lead against the shawnees.

The Wyandottes are at peace with the shawnees and do not take away their captives.

The few shawnees and Mingos in the village followed his example in timidity.

He was killed at the battle of the Thames, where the power of the shawnees was for ever crushed.

They were neither Miamis nor shawnees, nor any other tribe he knew.

The girl, just rescued from the shawnees, was a comely maiden.

I came near firing when I beheld two shawnees making for the timber.

He had the courage to attempt proof of his belief in the honesty of the shawnees.

Now that we know your medicine is weak and foolish they belong to all the shawnees.

If they can be broken down the shawnees will take many scalps and prisoners.

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