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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A member of 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 16th century.
2. 2
   a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo wordnet
3. 3
   a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
2. 2
   A town in Oklahoma.

Synonyms

All synonyms

caddoancaddoan language

Etymology

Clipping of French Kadohadacho, from Caddo kadawdáachuh.

Related phrases

Caddo CountyCaddo LakeCaddo Parishnative american

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.