Osage
//ˈoʊseɪdʒ// name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of the Osage Nation.
- 2 the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage wordnet
- 3 a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The Osage Nation.
- 2 The now-extinct language of the Osage Nation.
- 3 A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Arkansas.
- 5 A city, the county seat of Mitchell County, Iowa, United States.
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- 6 A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Becker County, Minnesota.
- 7 An unincorporated community in Camden County, New Jersey.
- 8 An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
- 9 A small town in Osage County, Oklahoma.
- 10 An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
- 11 A census-designated place in Wyoming.
- 12 A river in Missouri (the Osage River), which is a tributary of the Missouri River.
- 13 Four townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, United States, listed under Osage.
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More examples"The last native speaker of the Osage language died in 2005."
Etymology
Evolved from a borrowing from French variations of Osage 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 (wažáže), the name of a division of the tribe.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.