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WICHITA

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 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 Texasplay

2. the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas Riverplay

3. the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichitaplay

  Familiarity information: WICHITA used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


WICHITA (noun)


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)


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