Cahokia

English

Etymology

From an Illinois word meaning wild geese.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈhoʊki.ə/

Proper noun

Cahokia

1. A former (pre-Columbian Native American) city in present-day Illinois, now famous for its earthen mounds.
   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 170:

     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.

2. (historical) A Native American tribe now considered extinct.

Derived terms

• Cahokian