Ojibwa (redirected from Ojibwes)

O·jib·wa  (-jbw, -w) also O·jib·way (-w) or O·jib·we (-w)

n. pl. Ojibwa or O·jib·was also Ojibway or O·jib·ways or Ojibwe or O·jib·wes

1.

a. A Native American people originally located north of Lake Huron before moving westward in the 17th and 18th centuries into Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, western Ontario, and Manitoba, with later migrations onto the northern Great Plains in North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa.

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[Ojibwa ojibwe.]

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Ojibwa [əʊˈdʒɪbwə]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -was, -wa a member of a North American Indian people living in a region west of Lake Superior

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family Also called Chippewa

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Ojibwa - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior Chippewa, Ojibway 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
	2.	Ojibwa - the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa Chippewa, Ojibway Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains