Associations to the word «Cherokee»

Wiktionary

CHEROKEE, proper noun. An indigenous North American people.
CHEROKEE, proper noun. Their Iroquoian language, still spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
CHEROKEE, proper noun. A syllabary for the Cherokee language invented by Sequoyah.
CHEROKEE, noun. A member of this people.

Dictionary definition

CHEROKEE, noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee.
CHEROKEE, noun. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats