plains indian

1. 1.

   a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America

   SynonymsBuffalo Indian

   BroaderAmerindian

   NarrowerAtakapaArapahoBlackfootCaddoCheyenneKiowaOjibwaPimaSioux

Questions about plains indian

What does plains indian mean?

plains indian means "a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America".

What is another word for plains indian?

Close synonyms include Buffalo Indian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plains indian a common word?

plains indian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.