English Dictionary |
WICHITA
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does Wichita mean?
• WICHITA (noun)
The noun WICHITA has 3 senses:
1. a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas
2. the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas River
3. the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita
Familiarity information: WICHITA used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Wichita" is a kind of...):
Caddo (a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Wichita" is a part of...):
Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State (a state in midwestern United States)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Wichita" is a kind of...):
Caddo; Caddoan; Caddoan language (a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"One finger cannot lift a pebble." (Native American proverb, Hopi)
"If you know then it's a disaster, and if you don't know then it's a greater disaster." (Arabic proverb)
"God's mills mill slowly, but surely." (Czech proverb)