Ojibway

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of Ojibwe. alt-of, archaic

    "I put Lake Wobegon (pop. 942) on the western shore of the lake, for the beautiful sunrises. I said it took its name from an Ojibway word that means “the place where we waited all day for you in the rain,” and its slogan was “Sumus quod sumus” (We are who we are), […]"

  2. 2
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of an Algonquian people who stretch from present-day Ontario in eastern Canada all the way into Montana, above and around Lake Superior wordnet

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chippewachippewachippewa languageojibwaojibwaojibwa language

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"I put Lake Wobegon (pop. 942) on the western shore of the lake, for the beautiful sunrises. I said it took its name from an Ojibway word that means “the place where we waited all day for you in the rain,” and its slogan was “Sumus quod sumus” (We are who we are), […]"

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