Menominee
name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin.
- 2 the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini wordnet
- 3 a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Their language.
- 2 A village in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.
- 3 A city, the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States.
- 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.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.