Shoshone

//ʃoʊˈʃoʊni// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
  2. 2
    the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family) wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Shoshone people.
  2. 2
    The Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
  3. 3
    A small city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Idaho, United States.
  4. 4
    A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.

Example

More examples

"Elias was born in the Shoshone tribe."

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.