Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chipewyan
2 senses of chipewyan
Sense 1
Chipewyan -- (a member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay)
=> Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska)
Sense 2
Chipewyan, Chippewyan, Chippewaian -- (the language spoken by the Chipewyan)
=> Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language -- (a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir))