COMANCHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Comanche mean? 

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

1. a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma

2. the Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche

  Familiarity information: COMANCHE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMANCHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Shoshone; Shoshoni (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Shoshonean; Shoshonean language; Shoshonian; Shoshonian language (a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States)