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Wichita definition

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A member of 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.
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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.
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(place) City in S Kans., on the Arkansas River.
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The Caddoan language of the Wichita.
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wichita
Plural:
wichitas

Origin of wichita

  • Of Wichita origin (originally the name of one Wichita village population of the 18th century)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Wichita Sentence Examples

  • Wichita, named from an Indian tribe, was settled in 1870, and was chartered as a city in 1871.

  • Boeing's Wichita, Kansas facility produces part of every Boeing commercial jetliner except the 717.

  • Wichita is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, and the Kansas City, Mexico && Orient railways.

  • Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita, Leavenworth and Atchison were the only cities which had manufactures whose gross product was valued in 1905 at more than $3,000,000 each; their joint product was valued at $126,515,804, and that of Kansas City alone was $9 6, 473, 0 5 0, almost half the output of the state.

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