Miami
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A member of an indigenous North American people of Algonquian stock.
- 2 a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan wordnet
- 3 Miami University.
- 1 Alternative form of Mayaimi.; An extinct indigenous people of Florida.
- 2 Alternative form of Mayaimi.; An extinct language spoken by those people.
- 3 A placename:; A city, the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
"It may get even busier in town when a sleek train service called the Brightline debuts this summer, shuttling travelers between nearby West Palm Beach and Miami."
- 4 A placename:; A city, the county seat of Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
- 5 A placename:; A small city, the county seat of Roberts County, Texas.
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- 6 A placename:; A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township.
- 7 A placename:; Ellipsis of Lake Miami, former name of Lake Okeechobee: a lake in Florida, the source of the Miami River. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 8 A placename:; A river in Miami-Dade County, Florida, flowing past the city of Miami; in full, Miami River.
Example
More examples"During summers, I used to go to Miami."
Etymology
From Mayaimi, one of only ten words recorded from the language of the now-extinct Mayaimi people, meaning "big water", referring to the large lake on whose shores they lived, alternately called Lake Miami, Lake Mayimi, Lake Maymi, Lake Maimi; now called Lake Okeechobee. The Florida city is named for the Miami River. The river is named for its source, Lake Miami.
From Miami Myaamia, the endonym for the tribe in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.