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单词 Dakota
释义

Dakota1

proper nounPlural Dakotasdəˈkəʊtədəˈkoʊdə
  • A former territory of the US, organized in 1889 into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.

Derivatives

  • Dakotan

  • adjective & noun
    • Indeed, writes Larner, some disaffected young Dakotans would like to ‘blow it up,’ though Larner doesn't go so far.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even within the state, running across a fellow Dakotan is not as easy as you might think - we're the 17th largest state by land size, so there's only 10 of us for every square mile.
      • These civic-minded Dakotans were members of the Ground Observer Corps, inaugurated in 1950 by the Continental Air Command.

Rhymes

bloater, boater, Botha, doter, emoter, floater, gloater, iota, Kota, Minnesota, motor, promoter, quota, rota, rotor, scoter, voter

Dakota2

nounPlural Dakotasdəˈkəʊtədəˈkoʊdə
  • 1A member of a North American people of the northern Mississippi valley and the surrounding plains.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In common with other plains peoples, the Dakota were nomadic buffalo hunters, who gathered in tribes during the summer, and dispersed into family groups during the winter.
    • The period from 1850 to 1889 encompasses a summary of the Sioux Wars and the subjugation of Lakota and Dakota on reservations.
    • Lame Deer, for example, made clear that adopting the role of the berdache among the Teton Dakota was not always an exercise in free choice.
    • Further aggravating Minnesotans' dim view of the administration was the army's transportation of more than 100 contrabands to St. Paul, ostensibly to support the military expedition against the Dakota.
    • Moreover, they succeeded in the case of the Nez Perces and Dakotas because tribal members took control of the missions in ways that met their cultural needs and assuaged their spiritual hunger.
  • 2mass noun The Siouan language of the Dakota, spoken by about 15,000 people.

    Also called Sioux
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He encourages others to learn Native languages saying, ‘Raising a generation of fluent speakers is the start of ensuring that our people will speak Dakota in the future.’
    • He also translated Pilgrim's Progress into Dakota.
adjectivedəˈkəʊtədəˈkoʊdə
  • Relating to the Dakota or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An oblate there said I should have been called Ti-kdi-sni, which in the Dakota language means ‘Never Stays Home.’
    • Though Robertson refers to the Yanktons and Santees throughout the book as Lakotas, they are, in fact, Dakota people.
    • Pasche is from the Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba.
    • It spread west into Dakota territory, however, where other Sioux deplored gold seekers crossing their territory to mines in western Montana.
    • On the northern Plains are found the Crow, Hidatsa, and Dakota (also known as Sioux) languages.
    • Tribal leaders of North Dakota's Sioux - a name used to refer to Lakota, Nakota and Dakota tribes - have asked the school to drop the name.
    • This made them enemies of the British and allies of the French, who furnished them with guns, which they used to drive the more celebrated Dakota tribe on to the Great Plains.

Origin

The name in Dakota, literally 'allies'.

 
 

Dakota1

proper noundəˈkōdədəˈkoʊdə
  • A former territory of the US that was organized in 1889 into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.

Dakota2

noundəˈkōdədəˈkoʊdə
  • 1A member of a North American people of the upper Mississippi valley and the surrounding plains.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lame Deer, for example, made clear that adopting the role of the berdache among the Teton Dakota was not always an exercise in free choice.
    • In common with other plains peoples, the Dakota were nomadic buffalo hunters, who gathered in tribes during the summer, and dispersed into family groups during the winter.
    • Moreover, they succeeded in the case of the Nez Perces and Dakotas because tribal members took control of the missions in ways that met their cultural needs and assuaged their spiritual hunger.
    • The period from 1850 to 1889 encompasses a summary of the Sioux Wars and the subjugation of Lakota and Dakota on reservations.
    • Further aggravating Minnesotans' dim view of the administration was the army's transportation of more than 100 contrabands to St. Paul, ostensibly to support the military expedition against the Dakota.
  • 2The Siouan language of the Dakota.

    Also called Sioux
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He encourages others to learn Native languages saying, ‘Raising a generation of fluent speakers is the start of ensuring that our people will speak Dakota in the future.’
    • He also translated Pilgrim's Progress into Dakota.
adjectivedəˈkōdədəˈkoʊdə
  • Relating to the Dakota or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tribal leaders of North Dakota's Sioux - a name used to refer to Lakota, Nakota and Dakota tribes - have asked the school to drop the name.
    • It spread west into Dakota territory, however, where other Sioux deplored gold seekers crossing their territory to mines in western Montana.
    • On the northern Plains are found the Crow, Hidatsa, and Dakota (also known as Sioux) languages.
    • Pasche is from the Dakota Tipi First Nation in Manitoba.
    • Though Robertson refers to the Yanktons and Santees throughout the book as Lakotas, they are, in fact, Dakota people.
    • An oblate there said I should have been called Ti-kdi-sni, which in the Dakota language means ‘Never Stays Home.’
    • This made them enemies of the British and allies of the French, who furnished them with guns, which they used to drive the more celebrated Dakota tribe on to the Great Plains.

Origin

The name in Dakota, literally ‘allies’.

 
 
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