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Cheyenne

Syllables: Chey·enne/ʃaɪˈæn/

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pin pen merger/ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/

Cheyenne noun: a member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

Noun

Cheyenne (plural Cheyenne or Cheyennes)

  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...2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 108

Proper noun

Cheyenne

  1. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
    • "He don't talk English, only Cheyenne and sign." "You speak Cheyenne," Mason argued. "Why does he need an interpreter?"1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 108
  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 of Cheyenne

pluralCheyenne
pluralCheyennes

Origin of Cheyenne

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

Words formed from Cheyenne

Words that rhyme with Cheyenne

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Questions about Cheyenne

What does Cheyenne mean?
Cheyenne means a member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
What part of speech is Cheyenne?
Cheyenne can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Cheyenne?
Cheyenne is pronounced /ʃaɪˈæn/.
What is the plural of Cheyenne?
The plural of Cheyenne is Cheyenne.

Words near Cheyenne in the dictionary

  1. Chexbres
  2. chey
  3. Cheyanne
  4. cheyder
  5. cheyders
  6. Cheyenne
  7. Cheyenne County
  8. Cheyenne Wells
  9. Cheyennes
  10. cheyla
  11. cheylas

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