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miami
/maɪˈæmi/
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What does miami mean?
noun
- A member of an indigenous North American people of Algonquian stock.
- Miami University.
proper noun
- An extinct indigenous people of Florida.
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proper noun
- An extinct language spoken by those people.
- A city, the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
- A city, the county seat of Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
- A small city, the county seat of Roberts County, Texas.
- A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township.
- Ellipsis of Lake Miami, former name of Lake Okeechobee: a lake in Florida, the source of the Miami River.
- A river in Miami-Dade County, Florida, flowing past the city of Miami; in full, Miami River.
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IPA pronunciation
/maɪˈæmi/
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They existed alike in the valley of the two Miami Rivers, and in that of the Scioto.
Miami Black-Cap.--A vigorous, productive variety, found growing near the Miami River, in Ohio.
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Percy first worked out the data for the Miami black clay loam.
Your seven-page illustrated letter from Miami arrives at the same time.
One work, Fort Ancient, on the Little Miami River, Ohio, has a circuit of between four and five miles; the embankment was twenty feet high; the fort could have held a garrison of sixty thousand men with their families and provisions.