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Wich⋅i⋅ta

  [wich-i-taw]
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–noun, plural -tas for 1.
1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians, originally of Kansas but relocated in Oklahoma after the Civil War.
2. the Caddoan language of the Wichita.
3. a city in S Kansas, on the Arkansas River. 279,272.
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Wich·i·ta 1   (wĭch'ĭ-tô')   
n.   pl. Wichita or Wich·i·tas

    1. A Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting south-central Kansas and later moving southward into Oklahoma and Texas, with a present-day population in southwest Oklahoma.

    2. A member of this confederacy.

  2. The Caddoan language of the Wichita.


[Caddo wííc'ita.]
Wich·i·ta 2   (wĭch'ĭ-tô')   
A city of south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River southwest of Kansas City. It was founded in the 1860s on the site of an earlier Wichita Village and boomed as a cow town after the coming of the railroad in 1872. Population: 358,000.
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