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PAWNEE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Pawnee" is a kind of...):

Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Pawnee" is a kind of...):

Caddo (a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas)

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