n.
Pronunciation: sh ə - ' sh ō n, - ' sh ō -n ē ; ' sh ō - ˌ sh ō n
Variant: or Sho · sho · ni \ sh ə - ' sh ō -n ē \
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Shoshones or Shoshoni also Shoshone or Shoshonis
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1805
1 : a member of a group of American Indian peoples orig. ranging through California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming
2 : the Uto-Aztecan language of the Shoshones