A·rap·a·ho also A·rap·a·hoe ( -r p -h  )n. pl. Arapaho or A·rap·a·hos also Arapahoe or A·rap·a·hoes 1. a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and southeast Wyoming, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and central Wyoming. Traditional Arapaho life was based on the buffalo-hunting culture of the Great Plains. b. A member of this people. 2. The Algonquian language of the Arapaho. [Crow aaraxpéahu, those with many tattoos.] |
Arapaho [əˈræpəˌhəʊ]
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1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -hos, -ho a member of a North American Indian people of the Plains, now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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| Noun | 1. |  Arapaho - a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)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 |
| 2. |  Arapaho - the Algonquian language spoken by the ArapahoAlgonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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