What does "cheyenne" mean?
A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
Cheyenne
/ʃaɪˈæn/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
- Grammar: cheyenne is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: capital city, cheyenne language, city, ethnic.
- Useful contrasts: countryside, foreign, masculine name.
- Usage evidence: Cheyenne is the most populous city in Wyoming with a population of almost 92,000 people.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
"You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart."
- 2 the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne wordnet
- 3 a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana) wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
- 2 The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
- 3 A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
- 4 A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
- 5 A female or male given name of modern American usage.
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Example
"Cheyenne is the most populous city in Wyoming with a population of almost 92,000 people."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "cheyenne"?
Common synonyms include: capital city, cheyenne language, city, ethnic, ethnic group, feminine name.
How do you use "cheyenne" in a sentence?
Cheyenne is the most populous city in Wyoming with a population of almost 92,000 people.
How do you pronounce "cheyenne"?
Pronounced /ʃaɪˈæn/.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).