Definitions for hopiˈhoʊ pi
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Ho•piˈhoʊ pi(n.)(pl.)-pis; -pi.
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of NE Arizona.
Category: Peoples
the Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi.
Category: Peoples
Princeton's WordNet
Hopi(noun)
a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
Hopi(noun)
the Shoshonean language spoken by the Hopi
Wiktionary
Hopi(ProperNoun)
A tribe of North American natives.
Hopi(ProperNoun)
The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by this North American native American tribe.
Origin: hópi (as in hopísinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi móóki "dies, be dead".
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