1.a member of an American Indian people, orig. residing near Oneida Lake and the upper Mohawk River valley in New York: one of the Iroquois Five Nations. 2.the Iroquoian language of the Oneidas. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 200...
2.The Iroquoian language of the Oneida. [Oneidaonę·yóteʔ,erected stone, a village name.] O·nei·da2 (ō-nī′də) A city of central New York east-northeast of Syracuse. The Oneida Community, a Utopian society established in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, was nearby. It prospered...
2. The Iroquoian language of the Oneida. [Oneida onę·yóteʔ, erected stone, a village name.] O·nei·da 2 (ō-nī′də) A city of central New York east-northeast of Syracuse. The Oneida Community, a Utopian society established in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, was nearby. It ...