Cheyenne Definition

shī-ĕn, -ăn
cheyennes
noun
A member of a North American Indian people that migrated from Minnesota to the headwaters of the Platte River, and into S Colorado and SW Kansas, and now lives in Oklahoma.
Webster's New World
The Algonquian language of this people.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • capital of Wyoming
pronoun

A western member of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family. Cheyenne is spoken in Oklahoma and on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. There are currently (2005) approximately 1,200 Cheyenne-speakers in Montana and 500 in Oklahoma.

Wiktionary

The capital of the State of Wyoming.

Wiktionary
A female given name of modern American usage.
Wiktionary
A male given name of modern American usage.
Wiktionary

Origin of Cheyenne

  • Borrowing from French Cheyenne, from Dakota Sioux Sahi'yena.

    From Wiktionary

  • Canadian French from Dakota šahíyela

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cheyenne Sentence Examples

  • Near the city is a Government boarding school for the Indians of the Cheyenne and the Arapahoe Reservation.

  • There are sandstone deposits in Carbon county, which supplied the stone for the Capitol at Cheyenne and the state penitentiary; and from the Iron mountain quarries in Laramie county was taken the white variety used in building the Carnegie library and the Federal building in Cheyenne.

  • One extends from Cheyenne S.E.

  • Of the 75,116 born in the United States, That is, those in the two municipalities (Cheyenne and Laramie) having a population in 1900 of more than 8000.

  • Cheyenne was laid out by the Union Pacific Railroad (July 1867), a city government was established in August, newspapers began publication, and Laramie county was organized before the arrival of the first railway train on the 13th of November 1867.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

ENENNE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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