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Lumbee

Lumbee noun: a member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

Noun

Lumbee (plural Lumbees or Lumbee)

  1. A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

Proper noun

Lumbee

  1. The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.

Forms of Lumbee

pluralLumbees
pluralLumbee

Origin of Lumbee

Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).

Questions about Lumbee

What does Lumbee mean?
Lumbee means a member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
What part of speech is Lumbee?
Lumbee can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Lumbee?
The plural of Lumbee is Lumbees.

Words near Lumbee in the dictionary

  1. lumbars
  2. Lumbatan
  3. Lumbayanague
  4. lumbayao
  5. lumbayaos
  6. Lumbee
  7. Lumbees
  8. lumber
  9. lumber jacket
  10. lumber jackets
  11. lumber pie

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