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Mi⋅am⋅i

[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]
–noun, plural -am⋅is (especially collectively) -am⋅i.
1. a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family, formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan, and possibly Illinois, now extinct as a tribe.
2. their dialect of the Illinois language.

Mi⋅am⋅i

[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]
–noun
1. a city in SE Florida: seaside resort. 346,931.
2. Also called Great Miami. a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 mi. (260 km) long.
3. a city in NE Oklahoma. 14,237.

Mi⋅am⋅i⋅an, noun
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Mi·am·i 1   (mī-ām'ē, -ām'ə)   
n.   pl. Miami or Mi·am·is
    1. A Native American people originally of the Green Bay area of Wisconsin, with various groups later inhabiting parts of southern Michigan and northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Present-day populations are in northern Indiana and northeast Oklahoma.

    2. A member of this people.

  1. The variety of Illinois spoken by the Miami.

Mi·am·i 2   (mī-ām'ē, -ām'ə)   
A city of southeast Florida on Biscayne Bay south of Fort Lauderdale. Settled in the 1870s near the site of a fort built in 1836, it expanded greatly during the land boom of the 1920s and again after World War II. Today it is an important resort and cruise center for the Caribbean. Population: 404,000.
Mi·am'i·an adj. & n.
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Miami

Best-known city in Florida.

Note: Famed for its resort hotels.
Note: Home of the largest Cuban population outside Cuba, many of them exiles from the regime of Fidel Castro.
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