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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any member of two related groups of North American aboriginal peoples: the Northern Paiute of California, Nevada, and Oregon, and the Southern Paiute of Arizona, southeastern California and Nevada, and Utah.
2. 2
   the Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute wordnet
3. 3
   a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

paiute languagepiutepiute

Etymology

From Spanish payuchi, payuta, compare Spanish yuta (“Ute”).

Related phrases

north america

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