Seneca Definition

sĕnĭ-kə
senecas
noun
A member of a North American Indian people formerly living in W New York and now living chiefly in New York and Ontario.
Webster's New World
The Iroquoian language of this people.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
adjective
Of the Senecas or their language or culture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Seneca

Noun

Singular:
Seneca
Plural:
senecas

Origin of Seneca

  • From Dutch Sennecaas probably of Mahican origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Seneca Sentence Examples

  • It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, and the Lehigh Valley railways, and by the Cayuga & Seneca Canal.

  • Seneca cannot be too heavy nor Plautus too light."

  • But above all, what gives the sentences of Marcus Aurelius their enduring value and fascination, and renders them superior to the utterances of Epictetus and Seneca, is that they are the gospel of his life.

  • The verse shows great facility of metrical composition, but a considerable portion of it is transferred from the tragedies of Seneca.

  • It contains also an account of the metres used by Boetius in the Consolatio, and a list of the passages which he has borrowed from the tragedies of Seneca.

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Words Starting With

SSESEN

Words Ending With

ACAECA

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