dakota
/dəˈkəʊtə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.09 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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 North Dakota and South Dakota.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Out of air-to-ground ordinance.
Example Sentences
- "'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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dəˈkəʊtə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Dak
Dak.
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