Definition of Caddoan

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


Definition of Caddoan

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the Caddo. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caddoan

Cabriole legs
Cacajao
Cacalia
Cacalia javanica
Cacalia lutea
Cacatua
Cacatua galerita
Cachi
Cacicus
Cactaceae
Cactus League
Caddies
Caddo
Caddoan (current term)
Caddoan language
Caddos
Caddy
Cade
Caden
Cadence
Cadillac
Cadillacs
Cadiz
Cadmean
Cadmus
Cadra
Cadra cautella
Cadra figulilella

Literary usage of Caddoan

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

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... Then floated away, as though without effort, Thus displaying a power often to be spoken of by the old men in their teachings. III. Caddoan ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"For ethnological investigation among the tribes of the Caddoan stock. $2500. WILLIAM H. HOLMES, director of Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, ..."

3. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"... Then floated away, as though without effort, Thus displaying a power often to be spoken of by the old men in their teachings. III. Caddoan ..."

4. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"... movement of the Caddoan tribes the Pawnee seem to have brought up the rear. Their migration was not in a compact body, but in groups, ..."

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