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The influence of Chota soon overshadowed that of Tanasi, and by the early 1750s, Chota had become the more dominant town. In 1765, Henry Timberlake, who had visited the Overhill towns as an emissary in 1761–1762, reported 12 dwellings and 21 warriors at Tanasi, and identified Old Hop as chief of both Chota and Tanasi. [13]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Expedition notary Juan de la Bandera described Chalahume's topographic situation as similar to the Spanish city of Córdoba—a grapevine-filled valley at the base of high mountains—a description that fits Chilhowee. [2] Hudson points out that the phoneme "/m/" is infrequent in the Cherokee language. When the Cherokee replaced Chalahume's ...
Timberlake's "Draught of the Cherokee Country." Timberlake's "Tennessee River" is now known as the Little Tennessee River. North is to the left. Overhill Cherokee was the term for the Cherokee people located in their historic settlements in what is now the U.S. state of Tennessee in the Southeastern United States, on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.
The "head man" of Tallassee was one of several Overhill and Middle town chiefs who met with Colonel George Chicken at the Tanasi townhouse in 1725 to forge an alliance against their competitors the Creek. [2] Tallassee again appears on Henry Popple's 1733 Map of the British Empire in North America, along with Citico and Tanasi. In 1751, South ...
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.
Bogalusa (/ ˌ b oʊ ɡ ə ˈ l uː s ə / BOH-gə-LOO-sə) is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States.The population was 12,232 at the 2010 census.In the 2020 census the city reported a population of 10,659.
The Rigolets is spanned by two bridges. The western terminus of the U.S. Route 90 Rigolets Bridge is located immediately north of Fort Pike. It was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and required major repairs. [7]