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Wichita

(wic̸h′ə tô′)

city in S Kans., on the Arkansas River: pop. 344,000

Origin: after the Wichita (cf. Caddo wí·c'ita, Osage wícita), a Caddoan people who relocated in a village at the site of the city in Kansas as Civil War refugees (1862-67)

See Wichita in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Wichita or Wich·i·tas

a. A Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting south-central Kansas and later moving southward into Oklahoma and Texas, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma.
b. A member of this confederacy.
The Caddoan language of the Wichita.

Origin:

Origin: Caddo wííc'ita

A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River southwest of Kansas City. It was founded in the 1860s on the site of an earlier Wichita Village and boomed as a cow town after the coming of the railroad in 1872. Population: 358,000.

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