Definitions for ojibwaoʊˈdʒɪb weɪ, -wə; -weɪ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

O•jib•waoʊˈdʒɪb weɪ, -wə; -weɪ(n.)(pl.)-was also -ways; -wa also -way.

also O•jib•way

  1. a member of an American Indian people of Canada and the U.S., living principally in a region around Lakes Huron and Superior, extending W and N of Lake Superior to Saskatchewan and N Ontario.

    Category: Peoples

  2. the Algonquian language shared by the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algonquins.

    Category: Peoples

Origin of Ojibwa:

1690–1700

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa(noun)

    a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior

  2. Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa(noun)

    the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa


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