Cherokee

/ˈtʃɛrəki/

Other forms: Cherokees

Definitions of Cherokee

1. noun

   a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
   examples:

   George Guess

   Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)

   type of:

   Iroquois

   any member of the Native American peoples on land that later became New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
2. noun

   the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee
   type of:

   Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois

   a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois