"Shawnee" meaning in English

See Shawnee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

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Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sjw|Shawanwa||Shawnee}} Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”), {{cog|umu|sawanow}} Munsee sawanow Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Shawnee (not comparable)
  1. Of, belonging to, or pertaining to this tribe. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-Shawnee-en-adj-H23sh7Bu

Proper name

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Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sjw|Shawanwa||Shawnee}} Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”), {{cog|umu|sawanow}} Munsee sawanow Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Shawnee
  1. The language of this tribe.
    Sense id: en-Shawnee-en-name-mwrfSj-l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Languages Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 40 8 42 7 Disambiguation of Languages: 7 43 22 24 5
  2. A female given name, derived from the name of this tribe.
    Sense id: en-Shawnee-en-name-VDx7rGAq Categories (other): English female given names, English given names
  3. A city, the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. Categories (place): Cities in Oklahoma, USA, Cities in the United States, Places in Oklahoma, USA, Places in the United States Derived forms: Shawnee County Related terms: Shawnese
    Sense id: en-Shawnee-en-name-BtfIQn5v Categories (other): County seats of Oklahoma, USA, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Unami translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 40 8 42 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 21 11 63 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 2 18 10 65 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 18 9 68 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Unami translations: 2 15 11 60 13

Noun

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Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sjw|Shawanwa||Shawnee}} Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”), {{cog|umu|sawanow}} Munsee sawanow Head templates: {{en-noun|s|*}} Shawnee (plural Shawnees or Shawnee)
  1. A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio. Translations (Native American tribesmember): Shawnu [animate] (Unami)
    Sense id: en-Shawnee-en-noun-BQkMpf9s Categories (other): Native American tribes Disambiguation of Native American tribes: 2 7 3 12 77

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.