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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 Bayplay

2. the language spoken by the Chipewyanplay

  Familiarity information: CHIPEWYAN used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHIPEWYAN (noun)


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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