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Hiawatha

[ hahy-uh-woth-uh, -waw-thuh, hee-uh- ]

noun

  1. the central figure of The Song of Hiawatha (1855), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: named after a legendary Indian chief, fl. c1570.


Hiawatha

/ ˌhaɪəˈwɒθə /

noun

  1. Hiawatha16th-century16th-centuryMAmerican IndianPOLITICS: chief a 16th-century Onondaga Indian chief: credited with the organization of the Five Nations
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Hiawatha

  1. An actual Native American chief of the sixteenth century. In legends, he is the husband of Minnehaha. He urged peace between his people and the European settlers.


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Notes

The legend of Hiawatha is best known through the poem “The Song of Hiawatha,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .
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Example Sentences

Longfellow, author of the poem “The Song of Hiawatha,” about an Indian hero, likely met Isaac Pharaoh there.

Hiawatha had just been published when she was at school in St. Louis, and it had been a great favorite of hers.

In “Hiawatha” the accented syllable comes first, and the unaccented follows it.

In the same way, one decides that “The Song of Hiawatha” is written in trochaic tetrameter.

This beautiful allegory has been "done into verse" by Longfellow in Hiawatha.

Wabasso, as Hiawatha named him, had not attained to this length of years without encountering blackcats.

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