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Natchez
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1. natchez
a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Natchez
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1. Word forms: plural ˈNatchez
a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in SW Mississippi and later in Oklahoma
2.
the extinct language of this people, thought to be related to Muskogean
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Natchez
see synonyms of natchezn. pl. Natchez
1. A member of a Native American people formerly located on the lower Mississippi River near present-day Natchez. The Natchez ceased to exist as a people after war with the French in the early 1700s.
2. The language of the Natchez.
A city of southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River southwest of Vicksburg. Founded as a fortified settlement in 1716, it was held successively by France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States. Natchez prospered as the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace, a road connecting the city with Nashville, Tennessee, that was commercially and strategically important until the early 1800s.
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