Biloxi

English

Etymology

From Biloxi [Term?] (“first people”).

Noun

Biloxi (plural Biloxi or 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

Biloxi

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.

Further reading

• “Biloxi”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.