Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A member of this people.
- n. The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of Ojibwe.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
- n. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
Etymologies
- Ojibwa ojibwe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“By the end of the eighteenth century the Ojibwa were the almost unchallenged owners of nearly all of the present Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, and”
“My experiences with the Lakota, Ojibwa, Cree, Crow, Cheyenne, and Micmac medicine traditions taught that you must sincerely pray and often fast before knowing whether you should seek a vision.”
“The Ojibwa told a story about something that happened up on Lake Simcoe back in the seventies.”
“He was being visited by a friend of his, an Ojibwa man from around Lake Simcoe.”
“Peters, an ordained minister with Resurrection Life Church, an independent congregation in Grandville, dubbed his ministry 4 Fires to reflect the three nations that historically characterize Michigan: Odawa, Ojibwa and Potawatomi.”
The Huffington Post: American Indian and Christian Beliefs Blend at Michigan Church
“You feel like you're a kid when you're there," says Mr. Anixter, who attended Ojibwa from 1981 to 1994 and whose three sons are currently Ojibwa campers.”
“His features, where they were not gaunt or as tattered-looking as the sails on a floundering ship, had an Ojibwa cast.”
“German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother.”
“Dream Captcha is a play on the idea of a traditional Ojibwa dreamcatcher and the technology of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).”
“Her dissertation research was based on fieldwork she conducted in 1933 among the Ojibwa of Ontario, Canada.”
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