(ˈ)shȯ|nē, (ˈ)shä|- noun
also shaw·a·nee |shȯ(w)ə|nē ; or shaw·a·no -nō
( plural shawnee or shawnees )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Shawnee, Shawanee back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, Shawanese Shawnee, Shawnees, from Shawnee Shaawanwaaki, plural, literally, those in the south (from shaawanawa south) + English -ese: Shawano modification of Shawnee Shaawanwaaki
1.
a. : an Indian people of the Cumberland river valley, Tenn., but ranging through most of the states east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes
b. : a member of such people
2. : an Algonquian language of the Shawnee people