Dakota

plural Dakotas · alternative Dacota · alternative Dacotah · alternative Dahcotah · alternative Dakhóta

1. countableuncountableThe Santee branch of the Sioux people.
2. countableuncountableThe language of these people.
3. countableuncountableEither of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.
4. countablehistoricaluncountableThe Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.
5. countableuncountableA unisex given name transferred from the place name.

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   'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.

   2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12

plural Dakotas · alternative Dacota · alternative Dacotah · alternative Dahcotah · alternative Dakhóta

1. A member of the Dakota people.
2. A Douglas DC-3 aircraft.
3. aeronauticsOut of air-to-ground ordinance.