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Catawba


Ca·taw·ba 1

C0156400 (kə-tô′bə)n. pl. Catawba or Ca·taw·bas 1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting territory along the Catawba River in North and South Carolina and now located in western South Carolina.2. The Siouan language of the Catawba.

Ca·taw·ba 2

C0156400 (kə-tô′bə)n.1. A reddish North American grape developed from the fox grape.2. Wine made from this grape.
[After the Catawba (River).]

Catawba

(kəˈtɔːbə) npl -ba or -bas1. (Peoples) a member of a North American Indian people, formerly of South Carolina, now almost extinct2. (Languages) their language, belonging to the Siouan family3. (Brewing) a cultivated variety of red North American grape, widely grown in the eastern US4. (Brewing) the wine made from these grapes

Ca•taw•ba

(kəˈtɔ bə)

n., pl. -bas, (esp. collectively) -ba for 1a. 1. a reddish variety of grape, grown in the eastern U.S. 2. a dry white wine made from this grape. 3. a member of an American Indian people who lived in the Catawba River valley of the Carolinas in the early 18th century. 4. a river flowing from W North Carolina into South Carolina, where it becomes the Wateree River.
Thesaurus
Noun1.Catawba - a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the CarolinasSiouan, Sioux - a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
2.Catawba - slipskin grape; a reddish American table grapefox grape - purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties
3.Catawba - the Siouan language spoken by the CatawbaSiouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux

Catawba


Catawba,

river, N.C. and S.C.: see WatereeWateree
, river, c.395 mi (635 km) long, rising in the Blue Ridge, W N.C., as the Catawba River and flowing E past Hickory and then S past Charlotte into central N S.C. (becoming the Wateree below Great Falls) to the Congaree, which it joins to form the Santee SE of Columbia.
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Catawba

(kətô`bə), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). They have for centuries occupied a region in South Carolina around the Catawba River; they are noted for their ancient traditional pottery, which they still produce. Once a large and powerful group, they waged incessant but unsuccessful war against the Cherokee and tribes of the Ohio River valley. Fighting and European-introduced smallpox reduced them to a small group in the 18th cent. In 1962 the Catawbas' relationship with the federal government was terminated; in 1993, however, tribal status was restored and their reservation enlarged. Tribal headquarters are at Rock Hill, S.C. In 1990 there were close to 1,000 Catawba in the United States. The last speaker of Catawba died in 1996.

Bibliography

See D. S. Brown, The Catawba Indians (1966); C. M. Hudson, The Catawba Nation (1970).

Catawba

grape grown in the eastern U.S., producing a medium-dry white wine. [Am. Hist.: Misc.]See: Wine

Catawba


Related to Catawba: Catawba River, Catawba County
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Words related to Catawba

noun a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas

Related Words

  • Siouan
  • Sioux

noun slipskin grape

Related Words

  • fox grape

noun the Siouan language spoken by the Catawba

Related Words

  • Siouan language
  • Siouan
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