SIOUAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Siouan mean? 

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

1. 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

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

  Familiarity information: SIOUAN used as a noun is rare.

• SIOUAN (adjective)
  The adjective SIOUAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture

  Familiarity information: SIOUAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIOUAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Siouan; Sioux

Hypernyms ("Siouan" 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 "Siouan"):

Winnebago (a member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people)

Catawba (a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas)

Tutelo (a member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina)

Lakota; Teton; Teton Dakota; Teton Sioux (a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains)

Eastern Sioux; Santee; Santee Dakota; Santee Sioux (a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux)

Oto; Otoe (a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska)

Ofo (a member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi)

Missouri (a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri)

Iowa; Ioway (a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri)

Gros Ventre; Hidatsa (a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota)

Dhegiha (any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages)

Dakota (a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux)

Crow (a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana)

Biloxi (a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi)

Instance hyponyms:

Crazy Horse; Tashunca-Uitco (a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877))

Rain-in-the-Face (a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Siouan; Siouan language

Hypernyms ("Siouan" 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 "Siouan"):

Catawba (the Siouan language spoken by the Catawba)

Biloxi (the Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi)

Winnebago (the Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago)

Tutelo (the Siouan language spoken by the Tutelo)

Santee (the Siouan language spoken by the Santee)

Ogalala; Oglala (a Siouan language spoken by the Oglala)

Ofo (a Siouan language spoken by the Ofo)

Hunkpapa (a Siouan language spoken by the Hunkpapa)

Gros Ventre; Hidatsa (a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa)

Dhegiha (a branch of the Siouan languages)

Dakota (the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota)

Crow (a Siouan language spoken by the Crow)

Chiwere (the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri)

• SIOUAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Sioux people or their language and culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

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)

Derivation:

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)