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Dakota

UK/dəˈkəʊtə/

Dakota proper noun: the Santee branch of the Sioux people.

Proper noun

Dakota (countable and uncountable, plural Dakotas)

  1. The Santee branch of the Sioux people.
  2. The language of these people.
  3. Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.
  4. (historical) The Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.
  5. A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
    • 'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and...2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12

Noun

Dakota (plural Dakotas)

  1. A member of the Dakota people.
  2. A Douglas DC-3 aircraft.
  3. Out of air-to-ground ordinance.

Dakota meaning in Marathi

Dakota in Marathi

language of the Dakota
डॅकोटा ḍĕkoṭā
Native American people
डॅकोटा ḍĕkoṭā
member of the Dakota people
डॅकोटा ḍĕkoṭā

Forms of Dakota

Proper noun
pluralDakotas
alternative formDacota
alternative formDacotah
alternative formDahcotah
alternative formDakhóta
Noun
pluralDakotas

Origin of Dakota

Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).

Words formed from Dakota

Phrases with Dakota

Words that rhyme with Dakota

Questions about Dakota

What does Dakota mean?
Dakota means the Santee branch of the Sioux people.
What is Dakota in Marathi?
Dakota in Marathi is डॅकोटा (ḍĕkoṭā). See Dakota meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is Dakota?
Dakota can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Dakota?
Dakota is pronounced /dəˈkəʊtə/ (UK).

Words near Dakota in the dictionary

  1. dakoitis
  2. dakoits
  3. dakoity
  4. dakoo
  5. dakoos
  6. Dakota
  7. Dakota City
  8. Dakota County
  9. Dakota Formation
  10. Dakota Group
  11. Dakota Territory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Dakota (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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