Cheyenne

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

//ʃaɪˈæn//
//ʃaɪˈeə̯n//
//ʃaɪˈɛə̯n//
//ʃaɪˈɛn//
//ʃaɪˈɪ̟n//

A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

noun

1
A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

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.

Forms

plural: Cheyennes

Chew · A surname.chewed · That has been chewed; masticated.chewing · The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.

Cheyenne · A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

chi · The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek…Chi · A Chinese surname.Chiang · A surname from Mandarin; variant form Jiang.

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