Choctaw
noun
- pl. Choctaws or Choctaw a member of a North American Indian people that lived in S Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana and now lives in Oklahoma and Mississippi
- the Muskogean language of this people
See Choctaw in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(chŏkˈtô)
noun pl. Choctaw Choctaw or
Choc·taws a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, with present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
b. A member of this people.
- The Muskogean language of the Choctaw.
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