Iroquois Definition

ĭrə-kwoi
noun
A member of a confederation of Iroquoian Indian peoples that lived in upstate New York and included the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, Mohawks, and (after 1723) the Tuscaroras: their descendants live in New York, Ontario, Quebec, and Oklahoma.
Webster's New World
Any of the languages spoken by the Iroquois.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

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.

Wiktionary

Any of the languages of the Iroquois, belonging to the Iroquoian family of languages.

Wiktionary
A person belonging to one of these tribes.
Wiktionary

A kind of hairdo, where both sides of the head are shaved leaving only a stripe of hair in the middle.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of the Iroquois or their languages or cultures.
Webster's New World

Origin of Iroquois

  • Borrowing from French, from Algonquian Irinakhoiw, literally, 'real adders'.

    From Wiktionary

  • French probably of Algonquian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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