Caddo Definition

kădō
caddos
noun
A member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly living in Louisiana, Arkansas, and E Texas, now living mainly in Oklahoma.
Webster's New World
The Caddoan language of these peoples.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun

A confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the sixteenth century.

Wiktionary

A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Caddo

Noun

Singular:
Caddo
Plural:
caddos

Origin of Caddo

  • French from Caddo kaduhdā·čuʔ a major tribe of the Caddo confederacy

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

Caddo Sentence Examples

  • Natural gas is found in Caddo parish, about 20 m.

  • In 1909 Jennings was the chief field in Louisiana, lesser fields being at Welsh, Anse la Butte, Caddo and Vinton.

  • Texas has no large lakes; but freshwater lakes, which are fed either by streams or springs, are common on the Coastal Plain; the best known of them are Grand Lake in Colorado county, Clear Lake in Harris county, and Caddo Lake on the Louisiana border.

  • In the vicinity of the city there are several lakes (including Caddo Lake) and springs (including Hynson and Rosborough springs).

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Words Starting With

CCACAD

Words Ending With

ODODDO

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Caddo

Words Starting With C and Ending With O

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