Cheyenne
Americannoun
plural
Cheyennes,plural
Cheyenne-
a member of a North American Indian people of the western plains, formerly in central Minnesota and North and South Dakota, and now divided between Montana and Oklahoma.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Cheyenne Indians.
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a city in and the capital of Wyoming, in the S part.
noun
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a member of a Native American people of the western Plains, now living chiefly in Montana and Oklahoma
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
noun
Etymology
Origin of Cheyenne
via Canadian French from Dakota Shaiyena, from shaia to speak incoherently, from sha red + ya to speak
Example Sentences
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The tech giant said it has committed more than $68 million in completed and future off-site infrastructure improvements across Cheyenne.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
“I don’t think it’s a salary cap issue,” Cheyenne Merced of Sacramento said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
In 1996, after being chosen to join the Southern Cheyenne Peace Chiefs, Pratt took the ancestral name Vopenonoma’e, “White Thunder.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Cheyenne Hangaman, the boys' mother, said she tried to rescue them by lifting them out of the water and placing them on the ice, but it kept breaking.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
They were forced to retreat, unable to break past the fierce Lakota and Cheyenne firing.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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