Arapaho
Americannoun
plural
Arapahos,plural
Arapaho-
a member of a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian speech stock, once dwelling in the Colorado plains and now in Oklahoma and Wyoming.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Arapaho.
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
Example Sentences
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This year there are three women jockeys with Rachel King on outsider Arapaho and Celine Gaudry entrusted with Geelong Cup winner Torranzino.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
Left Hand, an Arapaho veteran of Little Big Horn, later reflected on this transformation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
They were my cheery guides as I drove through the Arapaho National Forest, surrounded by too many dead trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
One is erected in Cheyenne style, the other Arapaho style, with doorways facing east to greet the morning sun.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2023
Jimmy and his grandfather followed the path to the monument to the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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