cimarron

¹

[ sim-uh-ron, -rohn, -er-uhn; sim-uh-rohn ]

noun

1. bighorn.

Cimarron

²

[ sim-uh-ron, -rohn, -er-uhn; sim-uh-rohn ]

noun

1. a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cimarron¹

First recorded in 1840–50; from Colonial Spanish (carnero) cimarrón “wild (ram),” Spanish: “wild,” probably equivalent to Old Spanish cimarra “brushwood, thicket,” from cim(a) “peak, summit” (from Latin cȳma “spring shoots of a vegetable,” from Greek; cyme ) + -arrón adjective suffix; maroon ²

Example Sentences

All he has to go on is a vague social media update Bearsun posted in Cimarron, New Mexico, which said he was heading east toward the town of Springer.

From Outside Online

Tim Beard, Cimarron’s chief executive officer, used nearly a third of the relief aid to pay off NewLight Healthcare, a decision that experts say could force the hospital to repay the federal government.

From ProPublica

By abandoning their route along the immediate bank of the Arkansas on the twenty-eighth, the party missed the Cimarron.

From Project Gutenberg

The Cimarron is between the other two, in size as well as place; the Canadian is largest and most southerly.

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Collections from the Cimarron rarely contain more than five or six species.

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A few days were necessarily lost setting up and refitting the Kansas regiment after its rude experience in the Cimarron canyons.

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On the 19th we encamped in the Cimarron valley, about twelve miles below the Willow Bar.

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