English Explanatory Dictionary

Cheyenne

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
name
  1. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
  2. The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
  3. A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
  4. A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
  5. A female or male given name of modern American usage.

Pronunciation

/ʃaɪˈæn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Cheyenne.wav /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/ /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/ /ʃaɪˈɛn/ /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/

Word forms

Cheyenne Cheyennes

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

Related words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Cheyenne terms

Derived words

Cheyenne County Cheyenne Wells

Translations

Armenian: շեյեն Cherokee: ᏣᏰᏂ Cheyenne: Tsêhesenêstsestôtse Finnish: cheyenne Mapudungun: cheyenne dungun Russian: чейе́нн Russian: шайе́нн Swedish: cheyenne Taos: sayénuna
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