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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Shaw•nee (shô nē′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nees, (esp. collectively) -nee. - Language Varietiesa member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
- Language Varietiesthe Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
- Place Namesa town in E Kansas. 29,653.
- Place Namesa city in central Oklahoma. 26,506.
- Shawnee ŝa·wano·ki Shawnees, literally, people of the south
- Munsee Delaware ŝá·wano·w (singular)
- back formation from earlier Shawnese, Shawanese (construed as plural), reshaping (with -ese) of earlier Shawanoes (plural) 1720–30, American.
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