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Chippewe

Chippewe is the alternative form of Chippewa.

Meaning of Chippewa

Proper noun

Chippewa

  1. (US) The Ojibwe language.
    • All of these jobs and titles could be expressed in Chippewa. It was much better than English for invention, and irony could be added to any word with a simple twist.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 119
  2. Any of four rivers, one each in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and a river in Ontario.

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Questions about Chippewe

What is Chippewe the alternative form of?
Chippewe is the alternative form of Chippewa.

Words near Chippewe in the dictionary

  1. Chippewan
  2. Chippewans
  3. Chippewas
  4. Chippeway
  5. Chippeways
  6. Chippewe
  7. Chippewyan
  8. Chippewyans
  9. chippie
  10. chippie sauce
  11. chippied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chippewe (page history and authors); Chippewa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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