CHEYENNE
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)
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; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
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)
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)
