Meaning of Houma | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A historic Native American people of Louisiana on the east side of the Red River of the South.
   plural, plural-only
2. A city, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
3. A county-level city of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

Examples

“For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, the goal now is to bring their community back together. But Sanders said the reality was more complex as some residents identify with another tribe - the Houma Nation - while others have no tribal affiliation. The funds will be spent on helping all those living on Isle de Jean Charles to move.”

“Comardelle - who left the island for the city of Houma in southeast Louisiana - splits her life between raising her family and the fight for her people's future, and has spent so much time in the office that her three children keep toys there.”

“In hard-hit Houma, the dismal reality of life without air conditioning, refrigeration or other more basic needs began to sink in.”

“Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.”

““Team No. 14 arrived at Linfen on the 2nd of February. The fighting in that area was in the vicinity of Houma, but the situation is now stabilized and there lias been no fighting since the arrival of the team.”

“Between 1969 and 1970 continued excavation of sacrificial pits at the site of the State of Tsin¹⁰ at Houma, Shansi Province, yielded the bones of sacrificial oxen, horses and sheep, jade blades and slips, and other relics from the 5th century B.C.”

New Archaeological Finds in China

“In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.”

“A key tenet of Haier’s adaptive strategy is its COSMOPlat industrial IoT platform. This platform supported the establishment of the first autonomous mask production line in Houma, Shanxi with the creation of medical material information sharing platform in 2 days. Its global supply chain provided medical materials for over 400 firms for production of masks, protective clothing, and goggles.”

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