CHEYENNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cheyenne mean? 

• CHEYENNE (noun)
  The noun CHEYENNE has 3 senses:

1. the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state

2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne

3. a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)

  Familiarity information: CHEYENNE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEYENNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Wyoming; Cheyenne

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Cheyenne" is a part of...):

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Cheyenne" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Cheyenne" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)