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Webster 1913 Edition
Iroquois
Irˊo-quois′
,Noun.
sing.
& pl.
[F.]
(Ethnol.)
A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.
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Iroquois
Iroquois
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English
Proper noun
Iroquois (uncountable)
- A confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. Also known as the Iroquois League.
- The people who belong to these tribes.
- Any of the languages of the Iroquois, belonging to the Iroquoian family of languages.
- A kind of hairdo, where both sides of the head are shaved leaving only a stripe of hair in the middle.
Derived terms
Translations
confederacy of five Native American tribes
a person belonging to an Iroquois tribe
any of the Iroquois languages
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hairdo
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iroquois
iroquois
See also: Iroquois
French
Adjective
iroquois m (feminine singular iroquoise, masculine plural iroquois, feminine plural iroquoises)
- Iroquois (attributive)