Cheyenne
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Cheyenne
- /ʃaɪˈæn/
- /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/
- /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/
- /ʃaɪˈɛn/
- /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/ pin pen merger
Sounds like Shyanne · Rhymes with -æn, -ɛn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).
noun Cheyenne · Cheyennes
- A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America. You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but in
proper noun
- An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people. "He don't talk English, only Cheyenne and sign." "You speak Cheyenne," Mason argued. "Why does he need an interpreter?"
- The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
- A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
- A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A female or male given name of modern American usage.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: arapaho, deadwood, cheney, arapahoe, cherokee, comanche, kiowa, chipewyan, chippewyan, chiricahua, quechan, lakota, dakota, shawnee, chippewan, sioux
Translations
Talk about this word "Cheyenne." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cheyenne. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Cheyenne. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cheyenne "Cheyenne." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cheyenne.Cite this
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title = {Cheyenne},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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