Home › Words › C › cheyennecheyenne/ʃaɪˈæn/cheyenne means an Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.cheyenne is pronounced /ʃaɪˈæn/.EtymologyBorrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).nameAn Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.A female or male given name of modern American usage.nounA member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cherokee 70% match — A member of an indigenous North American people. vs cheyenne →arapaho 61% match — A member of a Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma. vs cheyenne →shoshone 60% match — A member of an Amerindian ethnic group of North America, especially of Wyoming and Idaho. vs cheyenne →kiowa 57% match — A member of an indigenous people of North America, currently in Oklahoma. vs cheyenne →chipewyan 57% match — A member of a Native American tribe of Central Canada, in the regions of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. vs cheyenne →cree 56% match — A member of this people. vs cheyenne →comanche 56% match — A member of a Native American ethnic group residing especially in Texas and Oklahoma. vs cheyenne →chenoua 56% match — The indigenous peoples living in and around Mt. Cheoua. vs cheyenne →