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METIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Metis mean?
• METIS (noun)
The noun METIS has 1 sense:
1. a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
Familiarity information: METIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Metis" is a kind of...):
mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)
Domain region:
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
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