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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Native American people formerly inhabiting central New York south of Oneida Lake, with present-day populations in Wisconsin, New York, and Ontario. The Oneida are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.
  2. n. A member of this people.
  3. n. The Iroquoian language of the Oneida.
  4. A city of central New York east-northeast of Syracuse. The Oneida Community, a Utopian society established in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, was nearby. It prospered through its manufacture of silverware and was reorganized in 1881 as a joint stock company. Population: 10,900.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One of a tribe of Native Americans formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in New York.
  2. n. Their Iroquoian language.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the Iroquoian language spoken by the Oneida
  2. n. a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario

Etymologies

  1. Oneida onę·yóteʔ, erected stone, a village name. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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