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SIOUX

Definition: SIOUX

SIOUX

Noun sing. & plural

1. See Dakotas.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SIOUX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: SIOUX

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SIOUX

EnglishSequential and Iterative Operation Unit X groupsN/A
SIOUX SystemEnglishSequential and Iterative Operation Unit X groupsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: SIOUX

English words defined with "SIOUX": Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Black HillsCrazy Horse, Custer, Custer's Last StandDakota, DakotasEastern SiouxGeorge Armstrong Custer, Gros VentreHidatsaLittle BighornOsages, OsticSantee, Santee Dakota, Santee Sioux, Santees, Siouan, Siouan language, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Sitting BullTashunca-Uitco. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SIOUX": American Indian tribe/Selected American Indian categoriesGateway 2000Sioux Falls jasper. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SIOUX" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Sioux), German (sioux).

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Modern Usage: SIOUX

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sioux Nation (1970)

The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)

Sioux Me (1965)

Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)

The Great Sioux Uprising (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SIOUX

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sioux Wildfire (White Squaw No 1) (reference)

  • The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 36) (reference)

  • Mississippi Sioux Judgment Fund Distribution Act : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 976, to provide for the dispostion of certain funds appropriated to pay judgment in (reference)

  • Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (reference)

  • The Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards: Spiritual Teachings of the Sioux (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: SIOUX

Photos:
SIOUX

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Illustrations:
SIOUX

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Photo Album: SIOUX

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Mud, rather than water, fills a watershed dam in the Little Sioux Watershed and Flood Prevention project in northwest Iowa. Many of Iowa's older watershed dams are filling with sediment and threatening their capacity to slow floodwaters. Credit: Tim McCabe.

NRCS conservationists working with a landowner in eastern South Dakota. The ridge overlooks the Big Sioux River bottomlands. Credit: Don Poggensee.

Northeast perspective. Photograph by John A. Bryan, July 1952. (Reproduction Number: HABS SD,1-PIER.V,1A-1) The old wagon wheel rims and wire resting against the wall of this run-down blacksmith shop were but a few of the items made or repaired for the United States Army garrison at Fort Bennett. The U.S. government established the fort on the outskirts of the Great Sioux Nation [Indian] Reservation in 1870 in order to provide protection to the personnel overseeing and implementing governmental policies following the Red Cloud War. Built in 1880, the sod-covered shop is Fort Bennett's only surviving structure. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Army Air Forces. Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D. : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Femme Sioux accroupie / [G. Devy]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Judith leaped from the saddle and running before Sioux, seized his horns and threw himself across his face. Credit: Library of Congress.

Joseph Bird Head, Lakota or Sioux, full-length portrait, seated on blanket holding handcrafted club, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. commissioners and delegations of Sioux chiefs visiting Washington, October 13, 1888. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sioux Indians in civic & industrial parade, Detroit bi-centenary celebration. Credit: Library of Congress.

New storage dugout built by rehabilitation client. Old one in foreground. Sioux County, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: SIOUX

AuthorQuotation

Sioux Proverb

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: SIOUX

"SIOUX" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 83.72% of the time. "SIOUX" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)83.72%3657,479
Noun (proper)16.28%7133,076
                    Total100.00%43N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: SIOUX

Expressions using "SIOUX": eastern Sioux Little Sioux North Sioux City Portage Des Sioux Santee Sioux Sioux Center sioux City Sioux County sioux Falls Sioux Rapids sioux State South Sioux City. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIOUX

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sioux falls south dakota

2,096

sioux falls newspaper

61

sioux city ia

1,169

sioux falls job

57

sioux city journal

647

north sioux city sd

57

sioux falls

539

sioux falls real estate

57

sioux

270

south sioux city ne

50

sioux city

248

sioux tool

49

argus leader sioux falls

225

air falls show sioux

47

sioux city iowa

207

lakota sioux

46

hospital sioux valley

193

falls ford sioux

44

sioux indian

189

sioux valley

42

sioux falls humane society

133

sioux tribe

38

canada lookout sioux

130

sioux falls weather

37

university of sioux falls

109

contact lookout sioux

36

hospital marketing sioux valley

100

falls movie sioux

36

sioux falls canary

93

sioux empire fair

35

sioux center iowa

89

sioux narrow

34

sioux lookout

81

sioux falls arena

34

district falls school sioux

78

sioux falls airport

34

sioux falls hotel

73

city of sioux falls

33

sioux city explorer

62

hotel sioux city

31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SIOUX

Language Translations for "SIOUX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

сиукски език, сиукски, сиукс. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Sioux. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dakoto. (various references)

   

German

  

Sioux. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

수 족의 사람. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iouxsay

   

Russian 

  

сиу. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

siux. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ชาวอินเ"ียนแ"ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

siyu kabilesi, siyu, kuzey amerika kızılderilisi. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сіу. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SIOUX

Misspellings

"SIOUX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isou, Niaux, Nieux, Rieux, Sarouks, Seydoux, siox, siux, soiux, Sonolux, soux. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SIOUX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-o-s-u-x"

-2 letters: six, sou, sox, xis.

-3 letters: is, os, ox, si, so, us, xi, xu.

 Words containing the letters "i-o-s-u-x"
 

+2 letters: anxious, noxious.

 

+3 letters: exiguous, eximious, fluxions, poxvirus, quixotes, suboxide, uxorious.

 

+4 letters: amphioxus, anxiously, equinoxes, exclusion, excursion, exordiums, expulsion, extrusion, luxations, luxurious, myxovirus, noxiously, obnoxious, outjinxes, quixotism, suboxides, sulfoxide, vexatious.

 

+5 letters: autosexing, effluxions, exclusions, excursions, executions, exhaustion, exiguously, expulsions, exsolution, extrusions, exudations, microluxes, oxyuriases, oxyuriasis, poxviruses, quixotisms, quixotries, saxicolous, sulfoxides, superoxide, uxoricides, uxoriously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SIOUX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 49 4F 55 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    ---    ..-    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 004F 0055 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5343495558

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SIOUX"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, bulgare, 불가리아, болгарский, болгарин, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieхоландски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holländisch, 네덜란", голландский, holandés, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський

Esperanto

vortaro, difino, tradukoесперанто, esperanton, эсперанто, esperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionгермански, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, Duitse, 독일, немецкий, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Korean

사 , 의, 번역корейски език, корейски, Koreaans, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский, coreano, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, 러시아, русский, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónиспански език, испански, Spaans, spanisch, 스페인, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Thai

พจนานุกรมThais, Thai, thailändisch, Thailänder, 타이 말, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeтурски език, турски, türkisch, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняукраинец, украински език, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, anglan, englisch, 영국, английский, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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