Cheyenne

Meanings

Noun

• A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

Proper Noun

• An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
• The capital and largest city of Wyoming (state), US (country) and the county seat of Laramie (county) County; named for the people.
• river US (country) ; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in {{w Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota}}.
• town, county seat Roger Mills County (county) Oklahoma (state) US (country).
• A female given name of modern American usage.

Origin

• Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena.