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Tlingits

Tlingits is the plural of Tlingit.

Meaning of Tlingit

Noun

Tlingit (plural Tlingits or Tlingit)

  1. A member of an Indian people from the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia.
    • Today (about fifty years later) it is not likely that any Tlingit would make quite these mistakes. Even if they have never seen a live sheep, probably they have all seen pictures of them. But the same kind of mistakes are still with us today. We meet them in translation of verses, of Bible stories...1963, Constance Naish, Gillian Story, “‘The Lord is My Goat Hunter’”, in The Bible Translator, volume 14, number 2, page 92

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Questions about Tlingits

What is Tlingits the plural of?
Tlingits is the plural of Tlingit.

Words near Tlingits in the dictionary

  1. TLH
  2. TLI
  3. Tli Cho
  4. Tlicho
  5. Tlingit
  6. Tlingits
  7. Tlinket
  8. Tlinkit
  9. Tlinkits
  10. tlk
  11. TLL

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