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Cahokia

UK/kəˈhəʊ.ki.ə/US/kəˈhoʊ.ki.ə/

Cahokia proper noun: a former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.

Proper noun

Cahokia

  1. A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.
    • The city of Cahokia and the surrounding villages and farms became the most extensive urban center in prehistoric North America, but the agricultural networks extended widely within the American Midwest and Southeast.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 170
  2. (historical) A Native American tribe now considered extinct.
  3. A village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

Origin of Cahokia

Borrowed from Miami kahokiaki (“wild geese”).

Words formed from Cahokia

Questions about Cahokia

What does Cahokia mean?
Cahokia means a former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.
What part of speech is Cahokia?
Cahokia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Cahokia?
Cahokia is pronounced /kəˈhəʊ.ki.ə/ (UK).

Words near Cahokia in the dictionary

  1. cahizes
  2. Cahn
  3. cahnite
  4. cahnites
  5. Cahns
  6. Cahokia
  7. Cahokia Heights
  8. Cahokian
  9. Cahoon
  10. Cahoons
  11. cahoot

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