Cree Definition

krē
crees
noun
A member of a North American Indian people living mainly in the Canadian Prairie Provinces.
Webster's New World
The Algonquian language of this people.
Webster's New World
pronoun

An aboriginal nation of North America.

Wiktionary

The Algonquian language or dialect continuum spoken by this people.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Cree

Noun

Singular:
Cree
Plural:
crees

Origin of Cree

  • From a phonetic rendering of Canadian French Cris, short for Christinaux, from Algonquian *kiristino, originally referring to a group in the Hudson Bay region.

    From Wiktionary

  • French Cris shortening of Cristineaux name of a 17th-century Cree band from Ojibwa (Old Algonquin) kirištino· from Cree

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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