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Cherokee

Cherokee

7.2
A person from a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States, now mainly living in Oklahoma
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɛrəki/
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  • My, my grandmother was Cherokee, But you know, I'm familiar with some of these different traditions and I think that my, my dad was half Cherokee and half Scottish.

My, my grandmother was Cherokee, But you know, I'm familiar with some of these different traditions and I think that my, my dad was half Cherokee and half Scottish.

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Examples

  • And President Jackson says, I don't care and they commit genocide against the Cherokee people and the court can't do anything about it.

  • And one of my dear brothers in that is Cherokee by blood, but practices in Lakota ways.

  • They got the cherokee kid!

  • I want to ask the elephant in the room question, which is playing Indian, the Cherokee grandmother's.

  • Part of MyHeritage is Cherokee, southeastern Cherokee, and there's a word in Cherokee called shante Ishta means single eye of the heart.

  • My grandmother was a proud Cherokee woman who passed down many stories about our heritage.

  • Many Cherokee people continue to celebrate their traditions and culture in Oklahoma today.

  • The Cherokee were one of the largest Indigenous tribes in the southeastern United States.

Synonyms

Native American
vsCherokee
161 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is one specific southeastern US people now mainly living in Oklahoma
native
vsCherokee
84 3.7

A person from the original people of a place, not later settlers

is a named southeastern group rather than a general local indigenous person
aborigine
vsCherokee
4 8.6

A person from the first people living in a place before others arrived

is the particular southeastern group not a general historical population
aboriginal
vsCherokee
2 7.6

A member of the first people who lived in a region

is a specific southeastern group rather than any original regional inhabitants
tribesperson
vsCherokee
6.5

A person who lives in a small community that shares the same customs

is the named southeastern people not only someone following tribal customs

Compounds

A language spoken by the Cherokee people in the southeastern United States

A climbing rose that has sweet-smelling white flowers and is grown in gardens

Surface Forms

Cherokee singular
Cherokees plural

Etymology

Cherokee came from a name used by nearby Native groups, probably Creek or Choctaw, that meant 'people who speak differently'. So Cherokee is the name for a member of that people.