Cheyenne

[ shahy-en, -an ]

noun

, plural Chey·ennes, (especially collectively) Chey·enne

1. a member of a North American Indian people of the western plains, formerly in central Minnesota and North and South Dakota, and now divided between Montana and Oklahoma.
2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Cheyenne Indians.
3. a city in and the capital of Wyoming, in the S part.

Cheyenne

¹

/ -ˈɛn; ʃaɪˈæn /

noun

1. a city in SE Wyoming, capital of the state. Pop: 54 374 (2003 est)

Cheyenne

²

/ ʃaɪˈæn /

noun

1. -enne-ennes a member of a Native American people of the western Plains, now living chiefly in Montana and Oklahoma
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cheyenne¹

via Canadian French from Dakota Shaiyena, from shaia to speak incoherently, from sha red + ya to speak

Example Sentences

Cheyenne Hunt, a 26-year-old law school graduate, ran for Congress in California’s 45th District but lost in the Democratic primary.

From Slate

The Concilio gala was at a private country club within the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.

From Los Angeles Times

Rawal also features Sammy Gensaw, a Yurok youth leader of the Ancestral Guard nonprofit who grew up on the Klamath River as its salmon were fished to near extinction, and Elsie DuBray, a young Lakota woman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe whose father, Fred, started the Intertribal Buffalo Coalition with the aim of revitalizing buffalo as a source of spiritual and physical nourishment.

From Salon

In 1994 she gave birth to a baby, Cheyenne, whose heart stopped beating about 15 minutes before she was born.

From Slate

Cheyenne Naeb, 26, walked away from Brittany Mansfield after shoving her in front of a stationary train on platform seven at Glasgow’s Queen Street Station in February last year.

From BBC