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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the southern Great Plains, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma. The Kiowa migrated onto the plains in the late 1600s from an earlier territory in western Montana.
  • noun The Kiowa-Tanoan language of the Kiowa.

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  • proper noun The Kiowa people of North America, currently in Oklahoma.
  • proper noun The Kiowa language of the Kiowa-Tanoan language family.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa
  • noun a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Kiowa kɔygu, Kiowa people.]

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