Chip·pe·wa (ch p  -wô , -wä, -w , -w)n. pl. Chippewa or Chip·pe·was See Ojibwa. |
Chippewa [ˈtʃɪpɪˌwɑː], Chippeway [ˈtʃɪpɪˌweɪ]
n pl -was, -wa, -ways -way
(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) another name for Ojibwa
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| Noun | 1. |  Chippewa - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake SuperiorAlgonquian, 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 |
| 2. | Chippewa - the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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