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Definition of pawnee - 2 dictionary results

Paw⋅nee

  [paw-nee]
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–noun, plural -nees, (especially collectively) -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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Paw·nee   (pô-nē')   
n.   pl. Pawnee or Paw·nees

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting the Platte River valley in south-central Nebraska and northern Kansas, with a present-day population in north-central Oklahoma. The Pawnee comprised a confederation of four relatively independent tribes living in permanent villages.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Caddoan language of the Pawnee.


[North American French Pani, of Illinois origin, ultimately of Siouan origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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