BILOXI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Biloxi mean? 

• BILOXI (noun)
  The noun BILOXI has 3 senses:

1. a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi

2. an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico

3. the Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi

  Familiarity information: BILOXI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILOXI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Biloxi" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Sioux (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Biloxi" is a part of...):

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Biloxi" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Siouan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux)

 Context examples 

A pause. Then Tom's voice, incredulous and insulting: You must have gone there about the time Biloxi went to New Haven.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Biloxi?" He concentrated with an effort. "I didn't know him. He was a friend of Daisy's."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Remember Biloxi," Jordan warned her. "Where'd you know him, Tom?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A man named Biloxi. 'Blocks' Biloxi, and he made boxes—that's a fact—and he was from Biloxi, Tennessee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I used to know a Bill Biloxi from Memphis," I remarked.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Biloxi," he answered shortly.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Biloxi?

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)