Wampum are shell beads that were used as a currency by Native Americans.
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Wampum
//ˈwɒmpəm//
Synonyms for "wampum" (159 found)
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28 translations across 27 languages.
Basque
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Belarusian
1 entries- вампу́м noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вампум noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Catalan
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏕᏗᏯᏍᏗ noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 貝殼串珠 /贝壳串珠 noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Czech
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Dutch
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Finnish
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
German
1 entries- Wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Irish
1 entries- vampam noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Italian
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Korean
1 entries- 왐펌 noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Latvian
1 entries- vampums noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vampumas noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Macedonian
1 entries- ва́мпум noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
1 entries- wapap noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Mohegan-Pequot
1 entries- môsôpi noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Ojibwe
1 entries- miigisag noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Polish
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Portuguese
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Russian
1 entries- ва́мпум noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Spanish
2 entries- chaquira noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Swedish
1 entries- wampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ва́мпум noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Uzbek
1 entries- vampum noun (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
[A]mong the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; […]
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From his lodge went Hiawatha, / Dressed for travel, armed for hunting; / Dressed in deer-skin shirt and leggings, / Richly wrought with quills and wampum; / On his head his eagle-feathers, / Round his waist his belt of wampum, […]
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These title deeds are of wampum, the grant of an Indian chief to the first Dowell, who left Farnham in Surrey in company with William Penn.
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