teepee
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- noun
- /ˈtiːpi/
:
tipi
- For our camping trip, we set up a teepee made of canvas to stay warm and dry.
- live in teepees
Feathers and teepees and pow wows and all that stuff.
- Feathers and teepees and pow wows and all that stuff.
- Eventually we got teepees with safari tents.
- And this little girl was was a little girl living in a teepee when they went out and killed Custer.
- He spent three years in the Adirondack Mountains in a teepee, cooking every meal on wood fire.
- Claim it and I'm up on top of a mountain in a teepee in the pitch black, laying there in the middle, having just lost my mind for five hours.
Examples
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When the buffaloes moved, they folded up their teepees and followed them.
Fiction book (1999) -
He spent three years in the Adirondack Mountains in a teepee, cooking every meal on wood fire.
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And the person across from me, wonderful family, but they lived actually in a teepee, OK.
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A teepee would be cool.
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Is your mother living in a teepee?
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There was always a picture of a hero or warrior on the front of the teepee.
Fiction book (1999) -
Native Americans are often asked if they live in teepees, and the answer is, "No."
Academic text (2009) -
From then on, there were teepees made by the plains Indians.
Fiction book (1999) -
A small teepee-style construction of branches was then erected over the body.
Academic text (2011) -
Took the half-drowned, shivering men to their teepees and gave them warmth, shelter, and food.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A shelter of cloth and poles that people sleep in outside
A traditional home used by some Native American groups like a tepee or wigwam
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Etymology
Teepee comes from the Lakota word tipi, which means 'to dwell' or 'they dwell'. So a teepee is literally a 'dwelling' — a portable home used by Plains people, and that explains why it was easy to set up and move.