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

2 senses of paiute

Sense 1
Paiute, Piute -- (a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States)
       => Shoshone, Shoshoni -- (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)

Sense 2
Paiute -- (the Shoshonean language spoken by the Paiute)
       => Shoshonean, Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language -- (a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States)