Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cheyenne

3 senses of cheyenne

Sense 1
Cheyenne, capital of Wyoming -- (the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state)
       INSTANCE OF=> state capital -- (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Sense 2
Cheyenne -- (the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

Sense 3
Cheyenne -- (a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana))
       => 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)
       => Plains Indian, Buffalo 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)