Library / English Dictionary

COMANCHE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Comanche" is a kind of...):

Shoshonean; Shoshonean language; Shoshonian; Shoshonian language (a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Comanche" is a kind of...):

Shoshone; Shoshoni (a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States)

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