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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Siouan language of the Santee.
  • noun A member of any of the Sioux or any of their languages. No longer in scholarly use.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun the Santee branch of the Sioux people; the language of these people
  • proper noun either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota
  • proper noun A male or female given name.
  • noun A member of the Dakota people.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux
  • noun the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota
  • noun the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota

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