HUPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hupa mean? 

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

1. a member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California

2. the Athapaskan language spoken by the Hupa

  Familiarity information: HUPA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hupa" 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 Athapaskan language spoken by the Hupa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Athabascan; Athabaskan; Athapascan; Athapaskan; Athapaskan language (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))