Alabama (Noun)
Meaning 1
A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 2
A river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 3
The Muskhogean language of the Alabama.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama; "the Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy".
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Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Alabamas were forcibly relocated in the 19th century from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.
- Historians have studied the language and culture of the Alabamas to gain insight into the lives of Native Americans before European settlement.
- The Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy, a loose alliance of southeastern tribes during the 18th and 19th centuries.
- By the early 19th century, the Alabamas were under pressure from encroaching white settlers and the US government to cede their lands.
- European-American settlers displaced the Alabamas from their original territory, and the removal policy of the US government led to their forced relocation.