shawnees Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
    Shawnee.
  2. noun the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
    Shawnee.

WordNet

Shaw`nees" noun plural
Wordforms
singular Shawnee
Definitions
  1. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

Webster 1913