noun
Wichita
WIHT-shih-taw
noun
1
A member of a Native American people historically based in what is now Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
"The Wichita were skilled farmers and traders on the southern Plains."
"Wichita communities lived in distinctive grass-thatched lodges."
How to Use Wichita
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishRefers to a Native American people, their (now extinct) language, or the city in Kansas named after them.
Word Forms
Wichitas plural, Wichita plural
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Etymology
Uncertain origin, likely from a Muscogee (Creek) phrase meaning "red water", referring to a river.