CREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cree mean? 

• CREE (noun)
  The noun CREE has 2 senses:

1. a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada

2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree

  Familiarity information: CREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Cree" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Cree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Cree" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

 Context examples 

Genetic mutations in the allele are linked to Cree leukoencephalopathy, leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter and ovarioleukodystrophy.

(EIF2B5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)