Pawnee

[ paw-nee ]

noun,plural Paw·nees, (especially collectively) Paw·nee for 1.
  1. a member of a confederacy of North American Plains Indians of Caddoan stock formerly located along the Platte River valley, Nebraska, and now living in northern Oklahoma.

  2. the Caddoan language of the Pawnee Indians.

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How to use Pawnee in a sentence

  • They soon drew away from the exhausted ponies of the Pawnee hunters, but the scouts kept close beside them.

    Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell Gregor
  • He spoke in loud tones, and Little Raven, who had been a captive in the Pawnee camp, understood many of his words.

    Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell Gregor

British Dictionary definitions for Pawnee

Pawnee

/ (pɔːˈniː) /


noun
  1. plural -nees or -nee a member of a confederacy of related North American Indian peoples, formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas, now chiefly in Oklahoma

  2. the language of these peoples, belonging to the Caddoan family

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