Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Iroquois"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Iroquois \Ir`o*quois"\, n. sing. & pl. [F.] (Ethnol.)
A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly
inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five
Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Iroquois
n 1: any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples
formerly living in New York state; the League of
Iroquois (or Five Nations) were allies of the British
during the American Revolution [syn: {Iroquois}]
2: a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the
Iroquois peoples [syn: {Iroquoian}, {Iroquois}, {Iroquoian
language}]
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