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Cheyenne

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Cheyenne

1
n
a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
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n
the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Cheyenne
1

n a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian
a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America

n the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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n the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state

Synonyms:
capital of Wyoming
Example of:
state capital
the capital city of a political subdivision of a country
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