ARAPAHO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Arapaho mean?
• ARAPAHO (noun)
The noun ARAPAHO has 2 senses:
1. a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho
Familiarity information: ARAPAHO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ARAPAHO (noun)
Meaning:
A member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Arapaho; Arapahoe
Hypernyms ("Arapaho" 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)
Meaning:
The Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Arapaho; Arapahoe
Hypernyms ("Arapaho" 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)
