- a variation of Wyandot.
Wyandotte
Americannoun
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Wyandottes,
plural
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Wyandotte
plural
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a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
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one of an American breed of chickens, raised for meat and eggs.
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Wyandotte
C19: from Wyandot, a N American Indian people
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“I don’t date Wyandotte County guys,” she said, adding, “My mother would kill me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
The Chiefs said in a statement the team will relocate to Wyandotte County, just west of Kansas City, where a new $3 billion stadium is being built in time for the 2031 season.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
Ali Mahfouz, the owner of Yogurt Co. in Wyandotte, Mich., jumped on the Dubai chocolate trend last October and business has been booming.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
Calvin’s case had been referred to the Wyandotte County district attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit, which investigates complaints of police misconduct and wrongful conviction.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
After much discussion the choice fell on three young Wyandotte pullets and a pair of white Aylesbury ducks, all of which were duly entered for exhibition.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
Many Wyandottes previously had converted to Catholicism when missionaries from the Jesuit religious order visited, said Mary Stockwell, author of “The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
The UMC this year is celebrating 200 years of missions, of which John Stewart’s ministry among the Wyandottes was the first.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
When the Indian Removal Act in 1843 forced the Wyandottes to move west, they sold about 109,144 acres in Ohio and 4,996 acres in Michigan to the U.S. government.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
Oklahoma prohibits Las Vegas--style casinos, and that is why the Wyandottes want a satellite reservation in Kansas, which does permit big-time gaming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bud was sure he had always wanted White Wyandottes like these.
From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard
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