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Dakota
name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 The Santee branch of the Sioux people. countable, uncountable
- 2 The language of these people. countable, uncountable
- 3 Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota. countable, uncountable
- 4 The Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. countable, historical, uncountable
- 5 A unisex given name transferred from the place name. countable, uncountable
"'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota."
Noun
- 1 A member of the Dakota people
- 2 the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota wordnet
- 3 A Douglas DC-3 aircraft
- 4 a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux wordnet
- 5 Out of air-to-ground ordinance.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).
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