Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, with a present-day population in Oklahoma.
- noun The language of the Yuchi, of no known linguistic affiliation.
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- noun Any of a
Native American tribe from the eastern Tennessee River valley, nowadays found mostly in northeasternOklahoma . - noun The language isolate spoken by this tribe.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Hiawasee—a Yuchi Nation subservient to Coosa—divide themselves into the Chief and Warrior Moieties, which, while not quite coequal, had built their respective palaces beside each other.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The Hiawasee—a Yuchi Nation subservient to Coosa—divide themselves into the Chief and Warrior Moieties, which, while not quite coequal, had built their respective palaces beside each other.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Word has come that the western Yuchi and the Chicaza are sending forces.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Word has come that the western Yuchi and the Chicaza are sending forces.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The highest success rates on public land are in WMAs in the northeast: Tuckahoe, Di-Lane, Yuchi, and Oaky Woods.
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With half of the Earth's 7,000 languages slated to disappear this century, the National Geographic Society is recording dying tongues from Yawuru to Yuchi Coral 'banks' are conserving the sensitive marine organisms — which grow more slowly than forest trees — in hopes of one day re-starting ocean reefs.
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The Yuchi Indians called themselves "children of the sun."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Hichitee, Koasati, and Yuchi, each with a distinct language; there are also several smaller broken tribes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The Yuchi are believed to have been allied with the Jats of India, and there is little or no doubt that the Sacae, or
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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In the last years of his reign the irrepressible Hun question again came up for discussion, and the episode of the flight of the Yuchi from Kansuh affords a break in the monotony of the struggle, and is the first instance of that western movement which brought the tribes of the
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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