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

  • noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern Finger Lakes region of west-central New York, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Onondaga are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.
  • noun The Iroquoian language of the Onondaga.

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  • noun One of a Native American tribe originally inhabiting Onondaga County, New York.
  • proper noun Their language.

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

  • noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River
  • noun the Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Onondaga onó·ɴtà’ke, on the hill, a village name.]

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