Kaw
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7.4
- proper noun
- /kɔː/
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Kaw
- "A lot of constituents believe these objects have a life force," says James Pepper Henry (Kaw), the museum's assistant director for community services, "so we need to treat them as if they're living, breathing entities."
Examples
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"Kaw-liga" and if you don't know it, boys, it starts in C, and if you get lost, just go to G and wait.
Fiction book (1990) -
By suppertime, I was sick of Janice and happy to go looking for Eddy and Nick at the Kaw hole, although my mother insisted Janice should keep me company.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Kaw, an unimpressive stream, had been passed that afternoon.
Fiction book (2002) -
The 18th Street Bridge is 80 feet in the air at its highest point and stretches over both a train yard and the Kaw River.
Academic text (1998) -
Autar Kaw, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Florida, is informed by his research to reach, encourage, and challenge a diverse student population.
Blog text (15) -
Kaw, sometimes called Kansa, Osage, and Pawnee, wearing ordinary farm clothes and looking singularly peaceful.
Fiction book (1993) -
Pepper's Pow-Wow, by Sandy Osawa, is a portrait of Jim Pepper, a Kaw/Creek Native American who has created a fusion of jazz and Amerindian music.
Academic text (1995) -
Nick grinned at me through Eddy's entire speech to my mother about how hot it was, how the Kaw River had backed up enough from recent rains to fill the hole that wasn't even stagnant this summer, how the still water was so clear you could see the tadpoles, and how Uncle Cecil had said even he used to swim over there.
Fiction book (1994) -
Anyway, the American writer David Ohle co-edited a beautiful and very funny book called Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers, about the counter-cultural scene.
Blog text (13) -
Many families enjoy picnics by the Kaw River during the summer.
Synonyms
A river in the northeast of Kansas, also called the Kansas River, that joins the Missouri River
A river in northeastern Kansas that flows east and joins the Missouri River
Compounds
A river in the northeast of Kansas, also called the Kansas River, that joins the Missouri River
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kaw comes from the name of a Native American tribe, the Kaw or Kansa. Think of the river as the tribe's river, which is why people call the Kansas River the Kaw.