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US
/ˌhaɪəˈwɑθə/
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NOUN
- a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)
How To Use Hiawatha In A Sentence
- Aboard the Hiawatha, Captain Delong strode into the ship's sickbay.
- The Song of Hiawatha," his most ambitious poem, took its content and themes from the legends of Michigan's Ojibwe Indians as collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and its meter from the Finnish epic "Kalevala" as recorded by Elias L ö nnrot. Spotty History, Maybe, but Great Literature
- The production is based on the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a Native American named Hiawatha, a real man who lived some 500 years ago.
- The helmsman engaged the ship's main thrusters for about two seconds, sending the Hiawatha slowly into the wormhole.
- Trochaics have rarely been more amusingly used than in Lewis Carroll's 'Hiawatha's Photographing', in which Hiawatha is exasperatedly trying to take portraits of a very tiresome and camera-conscious Victorian family.
- Before Hiawatha's story begins, we are introduced to the Master of Life and one of his gifts to mortals, the red pipe stone, from which the calumet or peace pipe is made.
- At one time, every self-respecting choral society programmed his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.
- On Monday, the first day of full commercial operation, we went looking for the southern terminus of the sleek new Hiawatha light-rail line.
- A sonata for piano and violin and a romanza for 'cello have been published, and his "Hiawatha" overture has been played by the Boston Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
- The radioman directed the Hiawatha's transmission to Brenner's earpiece.