Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now located in south-central Oklahoma. The Chickasaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
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- proper n. A Native American tribe now largely concentrated in southeastern Oklahoma.
- proper n. The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw nation (the native word is chikashsha).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
- n. the Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw
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Examples
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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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Broderick Stearns from Sulphur, Oklahoma, had to act fast to capture this lone doe he encountered in Chickasaw National Recreation Area.
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He didn’t see anything like a historical society, so he finally stopped at the Kerry’s Landing Chamber of Commerce, which sat a block east of the town’s single traffic signal on the main drag, which was called Chickasaw Boulevard.
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Throughout the colonial period the Chickasaw were the constant enemies of the French and friends of the English, but they remained neutral in the Revolution.
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Samuel Dickens, who often represented Person in the State Legislature, he removed in 1820 to West Tennessee, which was then called the Chickasaw purchase; he died there many years ago, full of wealth and the good will of his countrymen.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
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The fire of the Chickasaw was the most damaging to the Tennessee.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.
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They were some part Cherokee, some part Chickasaw—a half, a fifth, a third—the fraction wasn't important if your skin was dark, your hair black.
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The naturalist John Bradbury was on his way down the Mississippi and had tied up near the second Chickasaw Bluff when he was jolted awake by a most tremendous noise...
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In 1831, the collective Indian tribes known as The Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole) were living as an autonomous nation in the American South.
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After graduating from Fisk University, Lunceford taught music at Manassas High School in Memphis, Tenn., forming the Chickasaw Syncopators, an 11-piece student band, in 1927.
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