CADDOAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caddoan mean? 

• CADDOAN (noun)
  The noun CADDOAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CADDOAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CADDOAN (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("Caddoan" 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 "Caddoan"):

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)