Winnebago

[ win-uh-bey-goh ]

noun

, plural Win·ne·ba·gos, (especially collectively) Win·ne·ba·go

1. a member of a North American Indian tribe speaking a Siouan language closely related to Assiniboin, Teton, and Mandan, formerly located in Green Bay, Wis., now living in Green Bay and NE Nebraska.
2. Lake, a lake in E Wisconsin. 30 miles (48 km) long.

Winnebago

/ ˌwɪnɪˈbeɪɡəʊ /

noun

1. Lake Winnebago
   a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
2. -gos-go a member of a North American Indian people living in Wisconsin and Nebraska
3. the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family

Example Sentences

The committee also will target the 18th District, which now runs from Appleton south to Oshkosh along Lake Winnebago’s western shore.

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“We’re very happy with it,” said Jim Patt, president of the Southwest Chapter of Sturgeon for Tomorrow, one of five chapters along the Lake Winnebago system, which hosts Wisconsin’s spearing season.

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Winnebago County sheriff deputies arrested Soto as he fled from another home where he had stabbed a woman but had been slowed down by a driver who stopped to intervene, authorities said.

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One of the doctors is the medical director at Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where Morgan Geyser, now 21, was placed by court order in 2018.

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Morgan Geyser, now 21, wants to leave Winnebago Mental Health Institute with conditions.

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