Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shawnee

2 senses of shawnee

Sense 1
Shawnee -- (a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 2
Shawnee -- (the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)