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Definition: Iroquois |
IroquoisNoun1. Any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the League of Iroquois (or Five Nations) were allies of the British during the American Revolution. 2. A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois peoples. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Iroquois" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Iroquois \Ir`o*quois"\, noun. singular plural [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Iroquois (An). Anyone of the five (now six) confederate tribes, viz, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and sixth the Tuscaroras, added in 1712, now forming "The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Iroquois Confederacy is a group of Native American nations originally based in northern New York state around the Finger Lakes region. They now occupy territory in Canada, New York and elsewhere.
The spiritual union of the nations began before European contact. The visionary Hiawatha brought a message of peace to the original five nations. These were the Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Mohawks. For the most part they ceased fighting with one another and became one of the strongest forces in the 17th and 18th century in northeastern North America. They engaged in a series of wars against the French.
In 1720 the Tuscarora fled the European invasion of North Carolina to New York to become the sixth nation (non-voting) under the protection of the confederacy.
The combined leadership of these tribes is known as the Haudenosaunee.
The Iroquois political union and democratic government has been credited as one of the influences on the United States Constitution.
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Synonyms: IroquoisSynonyms: Iroquoian (n), Iroquoian language (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Iroquois |
| English words defined with "Iroquois": Iroquoian, Iroquoian language ♦ Ostic ♦ Shawnees ♦ Tuscarora. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Iroquois": American Indian tribe/Selected American Indian categories. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Iroquois": Wapiti. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Iroquois Trail (1950) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | US Forest Service employee points out different plants that grow around the Point Iroquois Light House on the Hiawatha National Forest, MI. Credit: USDA. |  | Iroquois Theatre fire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tattooed Iroquois Indian holding a large snake and smoking peace pipe, 1701. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eleazar Williams, missionary to Oneida and Iroquois Indians, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Iroquois, Goelet Cup Race. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Iroquois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Iroquois [and] Volunteer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Iroquois Club Banquet, tendered, Theodore Roosevelt, President, the United States, at Auditorium, Chicago, May 10, 1905. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Iroquois Indians. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Iroquois, S.D. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Iroquois" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Iroquois" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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| USA | Iroquois Bancorp, Inc. |
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1. Iroquois, IL (village, FIPS 37712) 2. Iroquois, SD (city, FIPS 32020) |
Expressions using "Iroquois": Iroquois County ♦ Iroquois medical botany ♦ Iroquois Point. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Iroquois"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | イメージ調査 (99.999999999 percent., bad bounce, bad hop, ear protector, ear valve, earmark, earphone, earring, eleven, eleven nines, eraser, eruption, Ile de France, illegal, Illinois, illumination, illumination control, illusion, illustrated map, illustration, illustrator, image change, image survey, in, include, income, income gain, income tax, increment, incremental, incremental business, incubate, incubation, incubator, ink, inn, Iran, Iraq, iridium, irony, irrational, irregular, irregular bound, yearbook, year-round fashion). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | イロコイ . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iroquoisay irokesisk, irokes. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Iroquois" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irroquois. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-o-o-q-r-s-u" | |
-4 letters: iris, ours, sori, sour. | |
-5 letters: ors, our, sir, sou, sri, suq. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-o-o-q-r-s-u" | |
+4 letters: soliloquizer. | |
+5 letters: soliloquizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 72 6F 71 75 6F 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. --- --.- ..- --- .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110010 01101111 01110001 01110101 01101111 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I r o q u o i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0072 006F 0071 0075 006F 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4384818387817585 |
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Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | engelsk |
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