Definition of "Alabama" :

noun: the Muskhogean language of the Alabama

noun: a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

noun: a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River

noun: a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama

"The Alabamas were members of the Creek Confederacy."