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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHAWNEE

Back formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee Shaawanwaaki people of the south, from shaawanawa south.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SHAWNEE

Shawnee  [ʃɔːˈniː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHAWNEE

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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shawnee is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHAWNEE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shawnee

Shawnee

The Shawnee or Shawnee nation are an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America. In colonial times they were a semi-migratory Native American nation, at times inhabiting areas spanning present-day Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, South Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania in the United States. They were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s. Today the three federally recognized Shawnee tribes: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and Shawnee Tribe, are all headquartered in Oklahoma. The United Remnant Band of the Shawnee Nation is a state-recognized tribe based in Ohio, where it has bought some land.

Definition of Shawnee in the English dictionary

The definition of Shawnee in the dictionary is -nees, -nee. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Tennessee River. Other definition of Shawnee is the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHAWNEE


alienee
ˌeɪljəˈniː
assignee
ˌæsaɪˈniː
Bini
bəˈniː
Chinee
tʃaɪˈniː
consignee
ˌkɒnsaɪˈniː
designee
ˌdɛzɪɡˈniː
detainee
ˌdiːteɪˈniː
djinni
dʒɪˈniː
donee
dəʊˈniː
examinee
ɪɡˌzæmɪˈniː
Guarani
ˌɡwɑːrəˈniː
internee
ˌɪntɜːˈniː
jinni
dʒɪˈniː
Khomeini
ˈxɔmeɪˈniː
lienee
lɪəˈniː
loanee
ləʊˈniː
nominee
ˌnɒmɪˈniː
Pawnee
pɔːˈniː
trainee
treɪˈniː
vaccinee
ˌvæksɪˈniː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHAWNEE

Shavianism
shavie
shaving
shaving brush
shaving cream
shaving foam
shaving gel
shaving soap
shaving stick
Shavuot
shaw
shawl
shawl collar
shawlie
shawlless
shawm
Shawwal
shay
shaya
Shays

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHAWNEE

ainee
bend the knee
dominee
gratinee
jinnee
knee
kokanee
management trainee
menominee
nee
optionee
overknee
ranee
returnee
signee
snee
Suwannee
Swanee
thick-knee
townee

Synonyms and antonyms of Shawnee in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Shawnee» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHAWNEE

Find out the translation of Shawnee to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Shawnee from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Shawnee» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肖尼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Shawnee
570 millions of speakers

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Shawnee
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Shawnee
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

شوني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Шони
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Shawnee
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Shawnee,
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Shawnee
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Shawnee
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Shawnee
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ショーニー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쇼니
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shawnee
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Shawnee
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஷாவ்னீ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शॉनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Shawnee
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Shawnee
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Shawnee
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Шоні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Shawnee
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Shawnee
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Shawnee
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Shawnee
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Shawnee
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Shawnee

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHAWNEE»

The term «Shawnee» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.779 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHAWNEE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Shawnee» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Shawnee» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Shawnee

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHAWNEE»

Discover the use of Shawnee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Shawnee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shawnee Heritage I
Volume 1 Shawnee genealogy and family history.-- Voluem 2 Selected lineages of notable Shawnee.
Noel Schutz, Don Greene, 2008
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Denny's Vocabulary of Shawnee
This vocabulary is a substantial collection of 404 Shawnee words and phrases collected by Major Ebenezer Denny in January of 1786.
Ebenezer Denny, 2005
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The Shawnee Indians
C. Shawnee. Beliefs. Jj. The Shawnee believe in a Great Spirit who rules all of nature. They believe that all things in nature are sacred, or holy. The Shawnee hold ceremonies to honor the spirits. The Shawnee chant, pray, and dance to ask  ...
Joanne Mattern, 2001
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The Shawnee Prophet
Traces the life of Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh's brother and a leader of the Indian resistance movement in 1812
R. David Edmunds, 1985
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The Shawnee
he Shawnee believed that nature was sacred. Everything on earth, including the ground, trees, water, rocks, and animals, had a spirit. Everything in the sky — the sun, moon, and stars — also had a spirit. The Shawnee danced, chanted, and ...
Sarah De Capua, 2007
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The Shawnee Indians: an annotated bibliography
The result of years of painstaking research, this outstanding compilation reflects the wealth of material available on the Shawnee, from contact through the 20th century.
Randolph Noe, 2001
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Shawnee-Minisink Revisited: Re-evaluating the Paleoindian ...
This is in contrast to the previous ten plant remains reported to have been utilized by Paleoindians at the site. Finally, I present a new suite of radiocarbon assays that provide the most precise age estimate for Clovis in the Northeast.
Joseph A. M. Gingerich, 2007
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Ridout's Vocabulary of Shawnee
"Reprinted from: Edgar, Matilda. 1890. Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815; being the Ridout letters with Annotations. Toronto: William Briggs"--T.p. verso.
Thomas Ridout, 2006
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Shawnee
The Shawnee were defeated and signed a peace treaty. During the American Revolution, the Shawnee fought with the British against the colonists. The Shawnee sided with the British to stop the American colonists from settling in their territory ...
Barbara A Gray-Kanatiiosh, 2010
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Southern Illinois Coal: A Portfolio
The coal mining photographs of C. William Horrell, taken across the southern Illinois Coal Belt over a twenty-year period from 1966 to 1986, are extraordinary examples of documentary photography—so stark and striking that captions seem ...
Herbert K. Russell, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHAWNEE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Shawnee is used in the context of the following news items.
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5 Released From Hospital After Church Van Wrecks On Will Rogers …
Fresh Fire Outreach Church in Shawnee says the van was one of three vehicles taking about 20 kids to a camp in Missouri. It says the group left Shawnee at 7 ... «News On 6, Jul 15»
2
Guns are found in home of former Shawnee Mission West student …
Zachary Perry, 19, was arrested after two students attending summer school at Shawnee Mission West said Perry had sent them threatening messages through ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
3
Murder charge filed in Shawnee baby's death
A 24-year-old Overland Park man has been charged with murder in the death Tuesday of a 7-month-old baby in Shawnee. Aaron Peck was arrested and ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
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Authorities Confirm Death Of 7-Year-Old Girl Pulled From Lake …
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Shawnee County authorities confirmed Monday afternoon that a 7-year-old girl who was pulled from Lake Shawnee Saturday night later ... «WIBW, Jun 15»
5
Three-year-old child among two dead after house fire in Shawnee
SHAWNEE, Kan. - A 3-year-old child is among two people dead following a house fire in Shawnee, Kan., Thursday morning. At 7:01 a.m. Thursday, Shawnee ... «KSHB, May 15»
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Dam breach threat continues in Shawnee
SHAWNEE -Pottawatomie County Emergency Management says 20 homes are in still danger as water rises in a neighborhood lake. The situation is considered ... «KTUL, May 15»
7
Neighbors Witness SWAT Team Surround Homes In Shawnee
A day after a man is murdered in a Shawnee neighborhood, police surround two homes Tuesday looking for a third suspect. Now we're hearing from neighbors ... «news9.com KWTV, May 15»
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Shawnee County District Court Judge Evelyn Wilson to hear Kansas …
“I'm pleased that Judge Wilson is taking time from her duties in Shawnee County District Court to sit with the Supreme Court,” Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said in ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Apr 15»
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Shawnee Heights USD 450, five other school districts say they will …
Concordia Unified School District 333, Twin Valley USD 240, Smoky Valley USD 400, Haven USD 312, Skyline USD 438 and Shawnee Heights USD 450 have ... «Topeka Capital Journal, Apr 15»
10
Pursuit suspect shot, killed
According to 911 dispatch logs, that pursuit ended in the area of Shawnee Twin Lakes near Post Office Neck and Lake Road. The suspect was identified ... «Shawnee News Star, Apr 15»

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