Seminoleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛ.mɪ.nəl/
  • 韻: -ɛmɪnəl
  • Homophone: seminal
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛ.mɪˌnəʊl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɛ.mɪˌnoʊl/

名詞

Seminole (plural Seminoles or Seminole)

1. Any member of a Native American people formed in the eighteenth century, now residing primarily in Florida and Oklahoma.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 175:

     So she was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by.

   • 2017, Benjamin R. Kracht, Kiowa Belief and Ritual, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134:

     Sometime in 1945 he faced an opponent who apparently “witched” him, causing facial paralysis and dizzy spells that rendered him bedridden. An old Indian doctor came to his bedside, looked into his eyes, and proclaimed that he had been witched by his Seminole adversary.

下位語

• (Native American): Miccosukee

派生語

固有名詞

Seminole

1. An unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.
2. A city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
3. A city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States.
4. A city, the county seat of Gaines County, Texas, United States.