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Miami

1

[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]

noun

plural

Miamis 
,

plural

Miami .
  1. a member of an Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe, formerly located in northern Indiana and Illinois, southern Michigan, and possibly Wisconsin, now living primarily in Oklahoma.

  2. their dialect of the Illinois language.



adjective

  1. of or relating to the Miami or their language.

Miami

2

[mahy-am-ee, -am-uh]

noun

  1. a city in SE Florida: seaside resort.

  2. Also called Great Miami.a river in W Ohio, flowing S into the Ohio River. 160 miles (260 km) long.

  3. a city in NE Oklahoma.

Miami

/ ɪˈæɪ /

noun

  1. a city and resort in SE Florida, on Biscayne Bay: developed chiefly after 1896, esp with the Florida land boom of the 1920s; centre of an extensive tourist area. Pop: 376 815 (2003 est)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Miami

  1. Best-known city in Florida.

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Famed for its resort hotels.
Home of the largest Cuban population outside Cuba, many of them exiles from the regime of Fidel Castro.
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Other Word Forms

  • Miamian noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Miami1

First recorded in 1690–1700; from French, from Illinois miamioua, myaamiwa “person from downstream”
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Example Sentences

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For those wanting to understand the forces at play over the next month of competition in the US, Miami's Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday would be an ideal place to start.

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A Miami police review of surveillance camera footage revealed that an altercation between Brown and another man took place before the shooting.

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In addition to Hawaii and San Diego, pay-it-forward programs have been started or will launch in the fall in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Miami.

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Deep in the bowels of Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, a note is taped to the door of Shakira's production office.

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The teen, from Honduras and identified only as "Henry," was taken away from his foster family in Pensacola, Florida, "in handcuffs and leg irons," the Miami Herald reported.

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