Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of 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.
- noun The Muskogean language of the Chickasaw.
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- proper noun A
Native American tribe now largely concentrated in southeasternOklahoma . - proper noun The
Muskogean language of the Chickasawnation (the native word ischikashsha ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
- noun 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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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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She was a sharecropper's wife in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, not good at picking cotton.
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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.
The Mesa Conspiracy David Kent 2005
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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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