cheyenne
/ʃaɪˈæn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.27 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
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An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
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The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
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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.
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A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
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A female or male given name of modern American usage.
Example Sentences
- "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 instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart."
- ""He don't talk English, only Cheyenne and sign." "You speak Cheyenne," Mason argued. "Why does he need an interpreter?""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: šahíyena, šaia, ša, ya
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