senecas Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
    Seneca; Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
  2. noun a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario
    Seneca.
  3. noun the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca
    Seneca.

WordNet


Sen"e*cas noun plural
Wordforms
singular Seneca
Definitions
  1. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Webster 1913