Biloxi

B3I1L1O1X8I1

noun

A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.

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Tunica-BiloxiBiloxi language
OriginFrench bilocchy ← bll Tanêks ąyaadi →
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Meanings

nounBiloxi (plural Biloxi or Biloxis)

plural Biloxis

  1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
proper noun
  1. The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
  2. A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. A village in southeastern Texas.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi

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Tunica-Biloxi
Broader
SiouxSiouan

nounthe Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi

Similar
Biloxi language
Broader
SiouanSiouan language

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. bllTanêks ąyaadi
  2. Frenchbilocchy
  3. EnglishBiloxi

Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.

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Cite this entry
APA

Biloxi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Biloxi

MLA

“Biloxi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Biloxi. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Biloxi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Biloxi.

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