DAKOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dakota mean? 

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

1. a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux

2. the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota

3. the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota

  Familiarity information: DAKOTA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAKOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Dakota" 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:

The area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Dakota"):

N.D.; ND; North Dakota; Peace Garden State (a state of north central United States bordering on Canada)

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)

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

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Siouan language spoken by the Dakota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

 Context examples 

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

His prospecting led him through the Dakotas, Idaho, and eastern Oregon, and on into the mountains of British Columbia.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Ours is the first large-scale prospective study to closely investigate the association between prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure and the risk of SIDS,” said first author Amy J. Elliott, Ph.D., of the Avera Health Center for Pediatric & Community Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

From 2007 until 2015, PASS Network researchers followed the outcomes of nearly 12,000 pregnancies among women from two residential areas in Cape Town, South Africa; and five sites in the U.S., including two American Indian Reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

Just why these inventions were a source of satisfaction to James Gatz of North Dakota, isn't easy to say.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)