Cheyennes

Variant of Cheyenne

Cheyenne definition

Chey·enne (s̸hī an′, -en′)

noun

  1. pl. Cheyennes -·ennes′ or Cheyenne -·enne′ 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
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: Fr < Dakota šahíyena: meaning unknown

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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