Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of Idaho, northern Utah, eastern Oregon, and western Montana, with a present-day population mostly in southeast Idaho.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the Great Basin area of Idaho, Utah, and Nevada south to Death Valley, California, with a present-day population mostly in Nevada.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting the Wind River valley of western Wyoming.
- noun Any of the Uto-Aztecan languages of any of the Shoshone peoples.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An
Amerind ethnic group ofNorth America , especially ofWyoming andIdaho . - proper noun The
Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Shoshone people. - proper noun The Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.
- noun A member of this people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
- noun the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By CAROLE CLOUDWALKER Staff writer A Colorado man camping with his family at Big Game Campground in Shoshone Forest was attacked by an emaciated male mountain lion on Sunday evening, July 12.
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Then he chased after the ambulance on the slick highway, pulling into the LDS Church parking lot in Shoshone 20 minutes after the ambulance did.
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Then he chased after the ambulance on the slick highway, pulling into the LDS Church parking lot in Shoshone 20 minutes after the ambulance did.
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You had to ask for it by name and it wasn't listed on their table; but, if you knew it was there and I got word from a little birdie to ask for the "Shoshone" - which apparently caused the fine folks pouring beer much amusement they would pour a wonderfully sour and refreshing dark Flanders Red.
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You had to ask for it by name and it wasn't listed on their table; but, if you knew it was there and I got word from a little birdie to ask for the "Shoshone" - which apparently caused the fine folks pouring beer much amusement they would pour a wonderfully sour and refreshing dark Flanders Red.
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“They were called Sheepeaters for the obvious reason that wild sheep were the mainstay of their diet, but they were more commonly known as the Shoshone Indians.”
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“They were called Sheepeaters for the obvious reason that wild sheep were the mainstay of their diet, but they were more commonly known as the Shoshone Indians.”
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“They were called Sheepeaters for the obvious reason that wild sheep were the mainstay of their diet, but they were more commonly known as the Shoshone Indians.”
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“They were called Sheepeaters for the obvious reason that wild sheep were the mainstay of their diet, but they were more commonly known as the Shoshone Indians.”
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Here an aide informed the President that the Ute, of which the Shoshone were a segment, had indeed fought the Arapaho for a century, and it was true that the Arapaho did eat dogs.
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