Shoshone
Americannoun
plural
Shoshones,plural
Shoshone-
a river in NW Wyoming, flowing NE into the Big Horn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
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a member of any of several Numic-speaking peoples of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
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the language or languages of the Shoshone.
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people of the southwestern US, related to the Aztecs
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the language of this people, belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family
Etymology
Origin of Shoshone
An Americanism dating back to 1805; < an Eastern Shoshone band name
Example Sentences
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Arguably the first collection of lyrical essay writing about the California desert, Austin drew on her travels through the Owens Valley and environs, covering mining, the Shoshone tribe, weather and water.
From Los Angeles Times
Twenty-two miles farther north, Shoshone appears as a small village serving a couple dozen residents.
From Los Angeles Times
To choose the name, the research team, led by University of Utah biology professor Michael Werner, worked with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.
From Science Daily
Once it had so many springs, streams and wetlands that the Paiute and Shoshone people called their homeland Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water.”
From Los Angeles Times
Another focus is the history of Indigenous people, the Paiute and Shoshone, who decades before L.A.’s water grab saw their ancestral lands taken and occupied by white settlers.
From Los Angeles Times
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