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单词 Shawnee
释义

Shawnee1

/SHôˈnē /
1A city in northeastern Kansas, southwest of Kansas City; population 60,954 (est. 2008).
2An industrial city in central Oklahoma; population 30,562 (est. 2008).

Rhymes

Shawnee2

/ʃɔːˈniː /
noun (plural same or Shawnees)
1A member of an American Indian people living formerly in the eastern US and now chiefly in Oklahoma.Several tribes, especially the Cherokees and Creeks in the South and the Shawnees, Kickapoos, Miamis, and others north of the Ohio River, held substantial military power....
  • Pontiac himself claimed to have waged war ‘solely on repeated invitations made me by the Delawares, Iroquois, and Shawnees.’
  • This Indian Territory was where eastern Indian tribes such as the Kickapoos, Delawares, and Shawnees lived.
2 [mass noun] The Algonquian language of the Shawnee, now with few speakers.
adjective
Relating to the Shawnee or their language.On 7 February 1778, Boone and thirty salt makers were captured by Shawnee Indians....
  • Cave's research brings to life many familiar figures, including Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his prophet brother Tenskwatawa, along with their ultimate nemesis William Henry Harrison.
  • Alone among prominent Shawnee chiefs, Blue Jacket gave his support to the Prophet and his brother Tecumseh.

Origin

The name in Delaware.

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