Dakota

[ duh-koh-tuh ]

noun

1. a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889.
2. North Dakota or South Dakota.
3. the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
4. Also called Sioux. a member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains.
5. Santee ( defs 3, 4 ).
6. a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.

Dakota

/ dəˈkəʊtə /

noun

1. a former territory of the US: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota in 1889

Other Words From

• Da·kotan adjective noun

Example Sentences

Drumheller noticed that Dakota’s skin had shrunk to surround the underlying bone.

From Science News For Students

About 67 million years ago, Dakota was a roughly 12-meter-long, duck-billed dinosaur that ate plants.

From Science News

In Dakota’s design, a curtain of bubbles would span the river in a diagonal line.

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Dakota’s idea was inspired by the Dutch Great Bubble Barrier in Amsterdam.

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Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, her missionary-given and later married name, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist.

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Tim Mathern, a longtime North Dakota state Senator came to the event thinking that it was “all about licking our wounds.”

From The Daily Beast

And Montana and South Dakota are basically red, of course, but are both elect Democrats sometimes.

From The Daily Beast

Try Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, and Arkansas; what you might call a crimson tide.

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Ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage passed in four states: Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

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Three of those Democratic incumbents represent Indiana, Montana, and North Dakota.

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I worked in North Dakota, and had saved up and planned to come over and marry my sweetheart, who waited in Brussels for me.

From Project Gutenberg

The native tribes of North Dakota are of three different linguistic stocks or races.

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North Dakota has a number of places to which attach interesting legends and myths.

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He and all his men crept quietly in the darkness through the Dakota lines and escaped safely.

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About sixty-six years ago such an attack was made by a war party of Dakota.

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