Seminole

noun

Sem·​i·​nole ˈse-mə-ˌnōl 

plural Seminoles or Seminole

: a member of any of several groups of Indigenous people that emigrated to Florida from Georgia and Alabama in the 18th and 19th centuries and whose descendants now live in southern Florida and Oklahoma

Examples of Seminole in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lake Minneola’s Wesley Morisseau and Seminole’s Jayden Aristile have both cleared 6-7½ in the boys high jump. —Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026

Lisa Rae Moss — serving a life sentence for her involvement in the 1990 murder of her husband, Mike Moss — sat in the witness box in a courtroom in Seminole, Oklahoma, on a frigid January morning in 2025, her hands knotted in her lap. —Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026

Varnum Public Schools is a small district in central Oklahoma’s Seminole county. —Beth Wallis, StateImpact, 19 Mar. 2026

The 2025 season was McAneney's first as a Seminole after transferring from Quincy University, a Division II school in Illinois. —Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026

Word History

Etymology

Creek simanó·li untamed, wild, alteration of simaló·ni, from American Spanish cimarrón wild

First Known Use

1763, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Seminole

• amphibole
• asystole
• buttonhole
• casserole
• centriole
• decontrol
• glycerol
• metropole
• monopole
• multipole
• omeprazole
• oriole

Kids Definition

Seminole

noun

Sem·​i·​nole ˈsem-ə-ˌnōl 

: a member of an Indigenous people of Florida