Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of 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.
- noun The Algonquian language of the Arapaho.
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- noun A member of the Arapaho people
- proper noun A
Native American people ofWyoming andOklahoma . - proper noun The
Algonquian language of this people.
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- noun a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
- noun the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Shortly after he baptized the Arapaho children they fell ill, and the tribe concluded that his religion was false.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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Of course, Kiowa replacement, which may be called the Arapaho, will not perform all the functions of the Lynx, but that is no bad thing.
Realism from the Anglosphere Richard 2006
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UPDATE: About 20 years ago, the US Navy was testing a similar program called ARAPAHO: In the Arapaho program, the Naval Air Systems Command developed a portable, modularized aviation facility intended for installation aboard container ships.
EagleSpeak 2009
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"Arapaho, " one of them muttered, but now the photographer was shouting at them to remain very still, and he had barely taken the picture when a wild shout arose from a distance and a group of young Indian braves galloped onto a large open field, where President Arthur sat under a canopy.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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All that’s left to the Arapaho is the Owl Creek Reservation, which is huge, but much of it not really suitable for human beings.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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All that’s left to the Arapaho is the Owl Creek Reservation, which is huge, but much of it not really suitable for human beings.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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All that’s left to the Arapaho is the Owl Creek Reservation, which is huge, but much of it not really suitable for human beings.
Heaven’s Keep William Kent Krueger 2009
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Later converted with US / UK "Arapaho" project modular helicopter support equipment to test the capabilities of the Arapaho project.
EagleSpeak 2009
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A headdress also crowns the head of an elderly but undaunted, buckskin-clad, fierce-looking "Arapaho" on horseback, holding the reins in one hand and a tomahawk in the other.
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Then the main group would take the stage for their three-hour set and we would be leaving to go back to the Arapaho Motor Lodge out by the airport with the third-division groupies on our arm.
The Rocker Who Aged Gracefully Steve Dougherty 2011
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