dakota

/dəˈkəʊtə/

name 5noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

half, north, south, talkative

I've always wanted to visit South Dakota to see the Mount Rushmore monument.

VERB + DAKOTA

found, go, like, lives, speaking

My grandparents go to Dakota every summer to visit their old friends.

DAKOTA + NOUN

lakota, nakota

The Lakota Dakota tribes maintained their cultural traditions across generations despite difficult circumstances.

PREP.

from, in, into

My grandparents moved from Dakota to California during the drought years.

ADV.

probably, really, supposedly

My cousin probably moved to North Dakota last year to find a better job.

Definitions

name

The Santee branch of the Sioux people.

The language of these people.

Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.

The Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of Nort

A unisex given name transferred from the place name.

'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.

noun

A member of the Dakota people

A Douglas DC-3 aircraft

Out of air-to-ground ordinance.

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Wiktionary

There was a snowstorm in North Dakota.

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There is little tourism in North Dakota.

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Large oil deposits were found in North Dakota.

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Ranching is common in the western half of South Dakota.

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Many people go to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, dakota is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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