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Shoshones

Shoshones is the plural of Shoshone.

Meaning of Shoshone

Noun

Shoshone (plural Shoshones or Shoshone)

  1. A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho.
    • If I'd kept a woman, he realized, instead of sending 'em back to their fathers' lodges - the Shoshone girl, them two Hunkpapas, the Crow I called Sally, even that Ree that come near talking me to death - if I'd kept one of 'em for more than just a winter, I'd have boys of my own by now to bring in...1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 110

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Questions about Shoshones

What is Shoshones the plural of?
Shoshones is the plural of Shoshone.

Words near Shoshones in the dictionary

  1. Shoshoko
  2. Shoshone
  3. Shoshone County
  4. Shoshonean
  5. Shoshonee
  6. Shoshones
  7. Shoshoni
  8. Shoshonian
  9. Shoshonis
  10. shoshonite
  11. shoshonites

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