Wich·i·ta 1 (w ch -tô )n. pl. Wichita or Wich·i·tas 1. a. A Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting south-central Kansas and later moving southward into Oklahoma and Texas, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma. b. A member of this confederacy. 2. The Caddoan language of the Wichita. [Caddo wííc'ita.] |
| Wich·i·ta 2 (wch-tô) A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River southwest of Kansas City. It was founded in the 1860s on the site of an earlier Wichita Village and boomed as a cow town after the coming of the railroad in 1872. Population: 358,000. |
Wichita [ˈwɪtʃɪˌtɔː]
n
(Placename) a city in S Kansas, on the Arkansas River: the largest city in the state; two universities. Pop.: 344 284 (2000)
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| Noun | 1. | Wichita - a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas 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 |
| 2. | Wichita - the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas River | |
| 3. | Wichita - the Caddoan language spoken by the Wichita Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo |
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