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Choc·taw (c̸häk′tô′, -tä′)

noun

  1. pl. Choctaws -·taws′ or Choctaw -·taw′ a member of a North American Indian people that lived in S Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana and now lives in Oklahoma and Mississippi
  2. the Muskogean language of this people

Etymology: Choctaw chahta, a self-designation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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