Cheyenne

Other forms: Cheyennes

Definitions of Cheyenne

1. noun

   a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
   type of:

   Algonquian, Algonquin

   a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

   Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian

   a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
2. noun

   the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
   type of:

   Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin

   family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
3. noun

   the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state
   synonyms: capital of Wyoming

   example of:

   state capital

   the capital city of a political subdivision of a country