Paiute

or Pi·ute

[ pahy-oot, pahy-oot ]

/ paɪˈut, ˈpaɪ ut /

noun, plural Pai·utes, (especially collectively) Pai·ute.

a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.

either of two mutually unintelligible Uto-Aztecan languages (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute).

Example sentences from the Web for paiute

The Paiute fashion of counting time appeals to me more than any other calendar.

The Land of Little Rain |Mary Austin
At mornings it falls toward the Paiute peoples, and evenings it falls on Shoshone land.

The Basket Woman |Mary Austin
It was not known at that time that an attempt would be made to curtail his Paiute source of water.

The Discards |Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
The name is sometimes equivalent to Paiute, who have proved to be of a more vigorous character than was formerly supposed.

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume 28 |Various

Her son was his brother, and Walter learned to speak Paiute before he learned English.

The Basket Woman |Mary Austin

British Dictionary definitions for paiute

Paiute

Piute

/ (ˈpaɪˌuːt, paɪˈjuːt) /

noun

plural -utes or -ute a member of either of two North American Indian peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) of the Southwestern US, related to the Aztecs

the language of either of these peoples, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family

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Paiute

or Pi·ute

noun, plural Pai·utes, (especially collectively) Pai·ute.

Example sentences from the Web for paiute

British Dictionary definitions for paiute

Piute

noun