Cheyenne
noun
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.
Cheyennes
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pluralof Cheyenne.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The meaning was clear: The Lakotas and the Cheyennes would soon win a spectacular victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“I see this newspaper clipping and it’s Southern Cheyennes in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1875. I know enough about my tribe’s history to know that we were never in Florida.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
For some Cheyennes, every treaty that peace chiefs signed and that the U.S. government broke made violence look more sensible than acquiescence.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
From the Rocky Mountains, Cheyennes and Arapahos also acquired horses from New Mexico and used them to move southward and join the hunting, raiding, and trading culture of the Plains.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
This occurrence is said to have taken place on the Smoky Hill River, in what is now Kansas, and the Indians from whom the horses were captured, are understood to have been Cheyennes.
From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell
