CADDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caddo mean? 

• CADDO (noun)
  The noun CADDO has 2 senses:

1. a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas

2. a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo

  Familiarity information: CADDO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CADDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caddo"):

Aricara; Arikara (a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river)

Eyeish (a member of the Caddo people of northeastern Texas)

Kichai (a member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas)

Pawnee (a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma)

Wichita (a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language

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

American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caddo"):

Aricara; Arikara (the Caddoan language spoken by the Arikara)

Pawnee (the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee)

Wichita (the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita)