Word.ws English Dictionary

wigwams

wigwams is the plural of wigwam.

Meaning of wigwam

Noun

wigwam (plural wigwams)

  1. A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
  2. (dated, possibly) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
    • Their houſes or wigwams, which they call carbets, are built as I have already deſcribed thoſe of the negroes; but inſtead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called tas, which grow in cluſters in all marſhy...1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XV, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume I, London...

See all 3 meanings of wigwam

Questions about wigwams

What is wigwams the plural of?
Wigwams is the plural of wigwam.

Words near wigwams in the dictionary

  1. wigwam burners
  2. wigwam for a goose's bridle
  3. wigwamlike
  4. wigwammed
  5. wigwamming
  6. wigwams
  7. wihara
  8. wiharas
  9. wihare
  10. wihares
  11. wihtikow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wigwams (page history and authors); wigwam (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wigwams.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wigwams. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.