Definition of Muskogean

1. Noun. A member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages.

Exact synonyms: Muskhogean
Generic synonyms: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
Specialized synonyms: Alabama, Choctaw, Hitchiti, Koasati, Muskogee, Seminole

2. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muskogean

Muscoidea
Muscovian
Muscovians
Muscovite
Muscovites
Muscovy
Muscovy duck
Muscovy ducks
Muse
Muses
Musgoi
Musgu
Musial
Muskhogean
Muskhogean language
Muskogean
Muskogean language
Muskogee
Muskogees
Muskoka
Muskoka chair
Muslim
Muslim Ummah
Muslim calendar
Muslimah
Muslimise
Muslimism
Muslimize
Muslimized
Muslimizes

Literary usage of Muskogean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"muskogean-speakers were the primary component in the Upper and Lower Towns. ... were often from non-muskogean components or tribes of the confederation, ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1917)
"In various relations of DeSoto's expedition the following Indian names for the great stream, muskogean in origin, ..."

3. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"Southward were various tribes, chiefly muskogean, although names of the Algonquian form are not wholly wanting over most of the southern area to the Gulf. ..."

4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"... (muskogean) family. The Mobiles, who have left their name to the bay adjoining the Mississippi delta; ..."

5. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Highland Chontal texts; 1965-1966. 3 reels of tape. Recording No. 52. Includes: texts; grammar. Cf. No. 4545. Donor, grantee. MUSKOGEE (muskogean) [4094] ..."

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