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Paunee

Paunee is the obsolete form of Pawnee.

Meaning of Pawnee

Proper noun

Pawnee

  1. A near-extinct language of North America.
  2. A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
  3. A ghost town in Geary County, Kansas, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Missouri, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Medina County, Ohio, United States.
  6. A city, the county seat of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States.

See all 10 meanings of pawnee

Forms of Paunee

Adjective
comparativemore Paunee
superlativemost Paunee
Noun
pluralPaunees
pluralPaunee

Questions about Paunee

What is Paunee the obsolete form of?
Paunee is the obsolete form of Pawnee.

Words near Paunee in the dictionary

  1. paunchless
  2. paunchway
  3. paunchways
  4. paunchy
  5. paune
  6. Paunee
  7. Paunees
  8. Pauni
  9. paunsway
  10. paunsways
  11. pauper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Paunee (page history and authors); Pawnee (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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