Onondaga

Other forms: Onondagas

Definitions of Onondaga

1. noun

   a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River
   examples:

   Hiawatha

   a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)

   type of:

   Iroquois

   any member of the Native American peoples on land that later became New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
2. noun

   the Iroquoian language spoken by the Onondaga
   type of:

   Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois

   a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois