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OJIBWA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ojibwa mean?
• OJIBWA (noun)
The noun OJIBWA has 2 senses:
1. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
Familiarity information: OJIBWA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Ojibwa" 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)
Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Ojibwa" 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)
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