Menominee

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin.
  2. 2
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Their language.
  2. 2
    A village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.
  3. 3
    A city, the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States.
  5. 5
    A town in Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States, which is coextensive with and consolidated with the county.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ojibwe manoominii (literally “wild-rice people”); from Ojibwe manoomin.

Related phrases

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.