Lexic.us

Definition of Caddo

1. Noun. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.

2. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo.

Definition of Caddo

1. Noun. A member of one of the Caddo tribes. ¹

2. Proper noun. A confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the sixteenth century. ¹

3. Proper noun. A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caddo

Cabriole leg Cabriole legs Cacajao Cacalia Cacalia javanica Cacalia lutea Cacatua Cacatua galerita Cachi Cacicus

Cactaceae Cactus League Caddies Caddo (current term) Caddoan Caddoan language Caddos Caddy Cade Caden

Cadence Cadillac Cadillacs Cadiz Cadmean Cadmus Cadra Cadra cautella

Literary usage of Caddo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"It forms a fifty-foot ridge running along the south side of the Caddo. ... Contorted sandstone, shale, and novaculite exposed on the Caddo; 100 feet wide by ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"The Killing of the Burning Gas Well in the Caddo Oil Field, Louisiana BY CD KEEN, SHREVEPORT, LA. (New York Meeting, February. 1914) IN the latter part of ..."

3. The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney (1896)
"Caddo TRIBAL SIGN " Pierced nose,'' in allusion to their former custom of ... SKETCH OF THE Caddo The Caddo are the principal southern representatives of ..."

4. Contributions to Economic Geology (short Papers and Preliminary Reports) 1917 by F. L. Ransome, E F Burchard, Hoyt S Gale, Geological Survey (U.S.), David White, Geological Survey (U.S. (1918)
"Index map showing location of northern or mountainous parts of the Caddo Gap and He Queen quadrangles, Arkansas and Oklahoma. ..."

5. Preliminary Report on the Road Materials and Road Conditions of Oklahoma by Luther Crocker Snider (1911)
"The Caddo limestone consists of clay, marls and limestones, the last increasing in proportion toward the top. The limestone beds even at the top are ..."

6. Oil and Gas in the Mid-continent Fields by Luther Crocker Snider (1920)
"Caddo field—The Caddo field is located in the western part of Caddo Parish and extend westward across the state line a short distance into Marion county, ..."

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