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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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
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.