Shoshone

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Shoshone

  • /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/

noun Shoshones · Shoshone · Shoshoni

  1. A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho. If I'd kept a woman, he realized, instead of sending 'em back to their fathers' lodges - the Shoshone girl, them two Hunkpapas, the Crow I called Sally, even that Ree that come near talking me to death - if I'd kept one of 'em for more than just a winter, I'd have boys of my own by now to bring in m

proper noun Shoshoni

  1. The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Shoshone people.
  2. The Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
  3. A small city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Idaho, United States. Wallace said he watched as the cameras were installed on each side of the railroad crossing in Shoshone about 18 months ago, and from that point on, opposition slowly grew louder.
  4. A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.

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noun Amerind people

Españolshoshón
Portuguêsshoshone, shoshoni
FrançaisShoshones
DeutschShoshone
Italianoshoshoni
Русскийшошо́ны šošóny

name Amerind language

Portuguêsshoshone, shoshoni
DeutschShoshone
Русскийшошо́нский šošónskij, шошо́не šošóne

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@misc{shoshone_2026,
  title = {Shoshone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shoshone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}