Cahokia

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UK/kəˈhəʊ.ki.ə/US/kəˈhoʊ.ki.ə/

proper noun

A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.

OriginMiami kahokiaki →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.

    The city of Cahokia and the surrounding villages and farms became the most extensive urban center in prehistoric North America, but the agricultural networks extended widely within the American Midwest and Southeast.

    2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 170
  2. historicalA Native American tribe now considered extinct.
  3. A village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.

Origin

  1. Miamikahokiaki“wild geese”
  2. EnglishCahokia

Borrowed from Miami kahokiaki (“wild geese”).

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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