IROQUOIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iroquois mean? 

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

1. any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

2. a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois

  Familiarity information: IROQUOIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IROQUOIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

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

Cayuga (a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York State)

Cherokee (a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma)

Erie (a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York)

Mohawk (a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State)

Oneida (a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario)

Onondaga (a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River)

Seneca (a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario)

Tuscarora (a member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Iroquoian; Iroquoian language; Iroquois

Hypernyms ("Iroquois" 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 "Iroquois"):

Cherokee (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee)

Cayuga (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cayuga)

Mohawk (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Mohawk)

Seneca (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca)

Oneida (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Oneida)

Onondaga (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga)

Tuscarora (the Iroquoian language spoken by the Tuscarora)