city in S Kans., on the Arkansas River
Origin of Wichita
after the Wichita (cf. Caddo wíc'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)Wichita
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Wichita
noun
pl. Wichita, or Wich·i·tas- 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.
- The Caddoan language of the Wichita.
Origin of Wichita
Of Wichita origin (originally the name of one Wichita village population of the 18th century)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.x
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