ARAPAHO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arapaho mean? 

• ARAPAHO (noun)
  The noun ARAPAHO has 2 senses:

1. a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)

2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho

  Familiarity information: ARAPAHO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAPAHO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arapaho; Arapahoe

Hypernyms ("Arapaho" is a kind of...):

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)

Buffalo Indian; Plains 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Arapaho; Arapahoe

Hypernyms ("Arapaho" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

 Context examples 

On Wednesday, October 18, 2019, more than 100 members, reportedly, of the Northern Arapaho Tribe turned out to watch the release of ten buffalo for the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in the western United States.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

The Arapaho have plans to widen the buffalo's range to 600 acres and report they are considering eventually pooling resources with the nearby Eastern Shoshone Tribe, who currently have a herd of 33 buffalo.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)