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Hia·wa·tha (hī′ə wä′t̸hə)

noun

the Indian hero of The Song of Hiawatha, a long narrative poem (1855) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: named for an Indian chief tho ught to have lived in the 16th cent.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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