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Definition of Caddoan
1. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo.
Generic synonyms: American Indian, American-indian Language, Amerind, Amerindian Language, Indian
Specialized synonyms: Aricara, Arikara, Pawnee, Wichita
Definition of Caddoan
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the Caddo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caddoan
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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