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cheyenne
/ʃaɪˈɛn/
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What does cheyenne mean?
noun
- A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
proper noun
- An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
- The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- 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.
- A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A female or male given name of modern American usage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃaɪˈɛn/
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The Sioux followed instructions and carried off the Cheyenne maid, and not until morning did she discover her mistake.
My road is now over Cheyenne Pass, and from this point is mostly down-grade to Cheyenne.
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I had gone about twelve miles from Deadwood, at the mouth of Whitewood creek, when I met the overland mail running from Cheyenne to Deadwood.
Cheyenne is described as "a God-forsaken, God-forgotten place."
One day two young Cheyenne bucks, met one of the government herders, and promptly killed him--in a sudden fit, half of ungovernable blood lust, half of mere ferocious lightheartedness.