Lexic.us

Definition of Seneca

1. Noun. Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).

2. Noun. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario.

3. Noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca.

Definition of Seneca

1. Proper noun. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman stoic philosopher, dramatist, and statesman. ¹

2. Proper noun. A tribe of native Americans in western New York state. ¹

3. Proper noun. The Iroquoian language of the Seneca. ISO code ''see''. ¹

4. Noun. A person of Seneca heritage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seneca

1. senega [n -S] - See also: senega

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seneca

Semon-Hering theory Sempatch Semper Gumbi Semper Gumby Semple vaccine Sen Sen. Senate Senatical Sendai

Sendai virus Sendero Luminoso Senderowitz Senear-Usher disease Senear-Usher syndrome Seneca Seneca snakeroot Senecan Senecas Senecio aureus

Senecio bigelovii Senecio cineraria Senecio cruentus Senecio doublasii Senecio glabellus Senecio jacobaea Senecio milkanioides Senecio triangularis Senecio vulgaris Senefelder

Literary usage of Seneca

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"FI - my determination is to perish in happy, and I shall always be your TRANSLATIONS FROM THE LESS FAMILIAR LATIN CLASSICS. No III. seneca, the Traffic ..."

2. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... cede to the United States a strip of land the United States by ,, ,1-1 r .,1 • i- ,i т т г the seneca. on the north side of their present reservation in ..."

3. Historical Collections of the State of New York: Containing a General by John Warner Barber, Henry Howe (1842)
"The village of seneca Falls was founded in 1815, by Col. Mynderse, who settled here in 1795, and built the first flouring mills in this section of the state ..."

4. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1859)
"seneca nation of Indians granted and conveyed to Thomas Ludlow Ogden and Joseph Fellows the two certain Indian reservations in the State of New York known ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"The two books by the elder seneca of which we hear, were probably both ... In his prefaces to the various books the elder seneca shows a pleasing wit, ..."

6. Annual Report by New York (State) Canal commissioners, New York (State), Canal Commissioners (1865)
"4. Oneida River improvement 20. b. seneca River towing-path 5.79 0. seneca River improvement, at Baldwinsville, including three-quarters of a mile of canal ..."

7. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Whatever had been the motives of his sentence against seneca, it was not by flattery that he could be swayed to reverse it. ..."

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