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seminole
/ˈsɛ.mɪˌnoʊl/
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What does seminole mean?
noun
- Any member of a Native American people formed in the eighteenth century, now residing primarily in Florida and Oklahoma.
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.
- A city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
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proper noun
- A city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Gaines County, Texas, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛ.mɪˌnoʊl/
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In the Creek and Seminole legends the Great Spirit made the first man, in the primeval cave, "from the clay around him."
Recently Herr Forchhammer, of Leipsic, has published a truly scientific comparison of the grammatical structure of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole languages with the Ural-Altaic tongues, in which he has developed many interesting points of resemblance.
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Mr. MacCauley, who visited the Seminole Indians of Florida, says: "I remember seeing, one day, one jolly little fellow, lolling and rollicking on his mother's back, kicking her and tugging away at the strings of beads which hung temptingly between her shoulders, while the mother, hand-free, bore on one shoulder a log, which, a moment afterwards, still keeping her baby on her back as she did so, she chopped into small wood for the camp-fire."