shawnee

1. 1.

   a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river

   BroaderAlgonquian

   NarrowerPontiacTecumseh
2. 2.

   the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee

   BroaderAlgonquian

Other forms of shawnee

plural

shawnees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shawnee

What does shawnee mean?

shawnee means "a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shawnee?

shawnee has 2 syllables: shaw-nee. The stress falls on "shaw". In IPA it is /ˈʃɔni/.

Is shawnee a common word?

shawnee is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.