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CHIPEWYAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chipewyan mean?
• CHIPEWYAN (noun)
The noun CHIPEWYAN has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay
2. the language spoken by the Chipewyan
Familiarity information: CHIPEWYAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Chipewyan" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The language spoken by the Chipewyan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Chipewyan; Chippewaian; Chippewyan
Hypernyms ("Chipewyan" is a kind of...):
Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))
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