Chinook

/ʃɪˈnʊk/

Synonyms for "chinook" (24 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
chinookanking salmononcorhynchus tshawytschachinook languagechinook pidgin

Strong matches (7)

Noun(7 words)
chinook salmonchinook trade languagechinook tribechinook windchinookan languagechinookan peoplecolumbia river people

Related words (12)

Noun(10 words)
downslope winddry windfoehn windfoehnlikeindigenousquinnat salmonsnow eatertyee salmonwarm dry windwarm wind

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More general

13 entries
Native American peoplesPenutianair currentcurrent of airethnolinguistic groupfishindigenous grouplanguagemeteorological phenomenonpidgin languagesalmonweather phenomenonwind

More specific

4 entries
Chinook cultureChinook languagedownslope windfoehn wind

Collocations

9 entries
Chinook fisheryChinook jargonChinook peopleChinook salmonChinook windChinookan languagechinook culturechinook languagechinook region

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In 1992, Marion Tinsley (1927-1995), the seemingly unbeatable World Checker Champion, defended his title against the computer program CHINOOK, in a series of games, of which he won 4, lost 2, and drew 33. This was the first time ever that a human world champion defended his title against a computer.

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Chinook Jargon was once widespread in the Pacific Northwest.

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The fish is an Atlantic salmon that contains genes from two other kinds of fish: ocean pout and Chinook salmon.

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In the sunny afternoon, today the 21st of August of 2022, my family sipped some King Arthur's Dry Mead from Chinook Arch Meadery. For many years, I've wondered what mead or honey wine would taste like, as I know that our surname in would-be Esperanto means "mead frog"—"medo" plus "rano"—"Medrano." It's like a drunken amphibian. Ancient Egyptians consumed mead, and ancient Beowulf and Tolkien writings mention it.

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