Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chippewa

2 senses of chippewa

Sense 1
Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa -- (a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin -- (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
       => Plains Indian, Buffalo Indian -- (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)

Sense 2
Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa -- (the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)