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Chickasaw

Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪkəsɔː/
Definition of Chickasaw

noun (plural same or Chickasaws)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people formerly resident in Mississippi and Alabama, and now in Oklahoma.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Muskogean language of the Chickasaw, now all but extinct.

adjective

  • relating to the Chickasaw or their language.

Origin:

the name in Chickasaw

Chickasaw in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Chickasaw in the US English dictionary
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