Definitions

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

  • noun A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux, comprising the Mdewakanton, Sisseton-Wahpeton, and Wahpekute peoples, with present-day populations in Nebraska, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Canada.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An East Indian land-measure, equal in some districts to as much as can be plowed by two bullocks in a season, and in others to what three or even four bullocks can plow.

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

  • noun A member of a Sioux group of Native Americans residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and northern Iowa.

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

  • noun the Siouan language spoken by the Santee
  • noun a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux

Etymologies

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Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi ("knife"), originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota.

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Examples

  • Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 6 p.m. SANTEE - The Sheriff's Department announced Saturday that it had cracked a suspected graffiti ring in Santee that involved about 100 cases of vandalism.

    Fore, right! 2010

  • Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 6 p.m. SANTEE - The Sheriff's Department announced Saturday that it had cracked a suspected graffiti ring in Santee that involved about 100 cases of vandalism.

    Fore, right! 2010

  • SANTEE - The city of Santee has tapped Twitter and Facebook to lobby against the county's proposed $300 million expansion of the Las Colinas Detention Facility.

    San Diego News 2009

  • SANTEE - A 38-year-old man was in custody today after authorities found items commonly used to make pipe bombs in his home in Santee.

    San Diego News 2009

  • SANTEE: A man in a wheelchair was killed after being struck by a vehicle last night in Santee, the Sheriff's Department said.

    Fore, right! 2009

  • SANTEE - The city of Santee has tapped Twitter and Facebook to lobby against the county's proposed $300 million expansion of the Las Colinas Detention Facility.

    San Diego News 2009

  • SANTEE - A brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon in Santee near the Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility and Edgemoor Hospital, and firefighters wered ispatched to protect several mobile home parks in the area, a fire dispatcher said.

    San Diego News 2009

  • Then the follow up classic in Santee Cooper when everyone was busting out push poles and sight fishing?

    Fishing with "Flyconelli" 2009

  • Then the follow up classic in Santee Cooper when everyone was busting out push poles and sight fishing?

    Fishing with "Flyconelli" 2009

  • Christmas without the specter of the cross, without awareness that this is a baby born to die for mankind's sins, is a fancied-up fraud, says Horton, professor of theology and apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, and associate pastor at Christ United Reformed Church in Santee, Calif.

    Where is Christ in Christmas? 2008

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