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Definition of Osage in English: OsagenounPlural Osages əʊˈseɪdʒˈəʊseɪdʒˈōsāj 1A member of a North American people formerly inhabiting the Osage River valley in Missouri. Example sentencesExamples - Recently, the authors asked an Osage, a descendent of a member of the Gthon’ I-ni-ka-sh-ga clan, about the rites and obligations of this high-status clan.
- There are also Indians from other tribes who have moved into Tahlequah: Creeks, Kiowas, Osages, and even Navajos.
- Among the Osage, the clan member who took the captive usually kept the captive in his clan as a ‘sho-ka’ or clan messenger and helper.
- Above all, it would be the increasingly powerful Osages living to the west of the new city that determined the success of this enterprise.
- Another wealthy tribe, the 16,000-strong Osage in Oklahoma, owns the rights to one of the richest oil and gas fields in the state.
2mass noun The Siouan language of the Osage, now virtually extinct. Example sentencesExamples - Osage is a Siouan language of the Southern Plains. Only a handful of elders still speak the Osage language today, but some young people are trying to learn.
- If you speak Osage, you can understand after a little while, Ponca.
- Currently, about twenty tribal members out of eighteen thousand can speak Osage fluently.
adjective əʊˈseɪdʒˈəʊseɪdʒˈōsāj Relating to the Osage or their language. Example sentencesExamples - In this remark, we hear a surviving fragment of this very ‘thunder power,’ handed down from an Osage ancestor.
- The name comes from the Osage Indians of that region, who, like other Native Americans, valued the tree for its wood.
- The Osage Indians of Missouri made a bread called ‘stanic’ from the pulp of the persimmon and ground corn.
- The Osage adoption ceremonies traditionally use one or two calumet pipes, some with bells, said to represent the sound of thunder, and two tufts of owl feathers, said to represent deer lungs.
- Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches.
Origin Alteration of Osage Wazhazhe, the name of one of the three groups that compose this people. Rhymes age, assuage, backstage, cage, downstage, engage, enrage, gage, gauge, mage, multistage, offstage, onstage, page, Paige, rage, rampage, sage, stage, swage, under-age, upstage, wage Definition of Osage in US English: Osagenounˈōsāj 1A member of a North American people formerly inhabiting the Osage River valley in Missouri. Example sentencesExamples - Another wealthy tribe, the 16,000-strong Osage in Oklahoma, owns the rights to one of the richest oil and gas fields in the state.
- Above all, it would be the increasingly powerful Osages living to the west of the new city that determined the success of this enterprise.
- There are also Indians from other tribes who have moved into Tahlequah: Creeks, Kiowas, Osages, and even Navajos.
- Among the Osage, the clan member who took the captive usually kept the captive in his clan as a ‘sho-ka’ or clan messenger and helper.
- Recently, the authors asked an Osage, a descendent of a member of the Gthon’ I-ni-ka-sh-ga clan, about the rites and obligations of this high-status clan.
2The Siouan language of the Osage. Example sentencesExamples - Currently, about twenty tribal members out of eighteen thousand can speak Osage fluently.
- Osage is a Siouan language of the Southern Plains. Only a handful of elders still speak the Osage language today, but some young people are trying to learn.
- If you speak Osage, you can understand after a little while, Ponca.
adjectiveˈōsāj Relating to the Osage or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches.
- In this remark, we hear a surviving fragment of this very ‘thunder power,’ handed down from an Osage ancestor.
- The Osage Indians of Missouri made a bread called ‘stanic’ from the pulp of the persimmon and ground corn.
- The name comes from the Osage Indians of that region, who, like other Native Americans, valued the tree for its wood.
- The Osage adoption ceremonies traditionally use one or two calumet pipes, some with bells, said to represent the sound of thunder, and two tufts of owl feathers, said to represent deer lungs.
Origin Alteration of Osage Wazhazhe, the name of one of the three groups that compose this people. |