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Seneca
1[ sen-i-kuh ]
noun
- a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
- an Iroquoian language of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes.
Seneca
2[ sen-i-kuh ]
noun
- Lucius An·nae·us [uh, -nee-, uh, s], c4 b.c.–a.d. 65, Roman philosopher and writer of tragedies.
Seneca
1/ ˈsɛnɪkə /
noun
- SenecaLucius Annaeus?4 bc65 adMRomanPHILOSOPHY: philosopherPOLITICS: statesmanTHEATRE: dramatist Lucius Annaeus (əˈniːəs), called the Younger. ?4 bc –65 ad , Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist; tutor and adviser to Nero. He was implicated in a plot to murder Nero and committed suicide. His works include Stoical essays on ethical subjects and tragedies that had a considerable influence on Elizabethan drama
- SenecaMarcus or Lucius Annaeus?55 bc?39 adMRomanTHEATRE: writerHISTORY: historian his father, Marcus (ˈmɑːkəs) or Lucius Annaeus, called the Elder or the Rhetorician. ?55 bc –?39 ad , Roman writer on oratory and history
Seneca
2/ ˈsɛnɪkə /
noun
- -cas-ca a member of a North American Indian people formerly living south of Lake Ontario; one of the Iroquois peoples
- the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
Other Words From
- Sene·can adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of Seneca1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Seneca1
Example Sentences
If corn grows best in a given region, then to maximize revenue, every inch of every acre of every farm in that region—and in a place like Seneca, South Dakota, nearly every acre is a farm acre—needs to be planted with corn.
A friend recommended R&R Pheasant Hunting, a ranch in Seneca, South Dakota, 650 miles away from our home in Bozeman, Montana.
It’s also meant that many clinics have had to close because of financial issues, giving Seneca fewer providers to turn to in certain places.
No, that would be Baia, a popular Roman resort once described by Seneca the Younger as a “vortex of luxury” (sign me up).
Seneca encouraged followers to possess the strength of immunity to setback, but never withheld his human touch.
Americans have joined in the journey from “Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall.”
Robert Herritt on a book that takes on everyone from Tom Friedman to Seneca—and yet remains surprisingly modest in its goal.
In the film, Wes Bentley plays Seneca Crane, the head gamemaker.
Seneca had recommended the severe morality of the Stoics, but added nothing that was not previously known.
In the final vowels io, we have the same term, with the same meaning which they carry in the Seneca, or old Mingo word Ohio.
A valet committed suicide, and quoted the illustrious example of Seneca.
He was twenty-three when he published the books of Seneca on Clemency, with learned commentaries.
The council-house not being large enough to contain so great an assemblage of people, they met in a valley west of Seneca Lake.
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