Associations to the word «Chippewa»

Wiktionary

CHIPPEWA, noun. (US) A member of the Ojibwe people.
CHIPPEWA, proper noun. (US) The Ojibwe language.
CHIPPEWA, proper noun. Any of four rivers, one each in Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, and Wisconsin.

Dictionary definition

CHIPPEWA, noun. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
CHIPPEWA, noun. The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats