Osage

Osage
noun
1. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century
• Hypernyms: ↑Dhegiha
2. a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River
• Syn: ↑Osage River
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑river
• Part Holonyms: ↑Missouri, ↑Show Me State, ↑MO
3. the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage
• Hypernyms: ↑Dhegiha

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Osage [Osage] noun (pl Osages or Osage)
a member of a ↑Native American people in the US state of ↑Oklahoma. Many of them have become very rich since oil was discovered on their ↑reservation (= land given and protected by the US government) at the beginning of the 20th century. The Osage had earlier lived in the ↑Ohio River valley and then along the Osage River in ↑Missouri. The US government moved them to the Oklahoma ↑reservation in 1872.

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osage
obs. variant of usage.

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