Shawnee
noun
Shaw·nee shȯ-ˈnē 
shä-
plural Shawnee or Shawnees
1
: a member of an American Indian people originally of the central Ohio valley
2
: the Algonquian language of the Shawnee people
Word History
Etymology
back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, ultimately from Shawnee ša·wano·ki, literally, southerners
First Known Use
1728, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Geographical Definition
Shawnee
geographical name
Shaw·nee shȯ-ˈnē
ˈshȯ-ˌnē;
shä-ˈnē,
ˈshä-ˌnē
1
city in northeastern Kansas on the southern edge of Kansas City population 62,209
2
city on the North Canadian River in central Oklahoma population 29,857