Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Sami.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the race from which Lapland takes its name, but which forms only a portion of its population.
  • noun An abbreviation of Lappish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as laplander. Cf. lapps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable An indigenous person from Lapland. One of the Sami people.
  • noun uncountable The language of the Lapp peoples.
  • adjective From Lapland or of the Lapp peoples

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
  • noun the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Swedish, from Old Swedish lapper, piece, perhaps of Finnish origin.]

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From Swedish lapp. This in turn originally possibly an extension of the meaning "patch" (in reference to poorness), or from Finnish lape ("periphery") (in reference to geography).

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Examples

  • Of course he knew that his ancestors had lived in Lapland for hundreds of years; but before he went to the Djurgård that day with Birger and Gerda, he had never heard himself called a Lapp in derision.

    Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

  • There is some great mystery of mythology, as yet unsolved, regarding the origin of the Edda and its relations with the faiths and folk-lore of the elder Shamanic beliefs, such as Lapp, Finn, Samoyed, Eskimo, and

    Algonquin Legends of New England Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Ali Lapp, who runs the House Majority PAC, said the fund-raising event will help Democrats as they attempt to pick up 25 seats to regain the majority in the House.

    Romney Matches Obama in Stance on Outside Groups Brody Mullins 2012

  • Lapp shamans, too, fasted in anticipation of making a sacrifice.

    Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011

  • It was incredible to stand on top of that peak and think that Birkeland had spent a winter (often braving atrocious weather conditions) with this breath-taking view stretching north to the Arctic Sea and south to the mountain plateau that is the winter home of the Sabme (Lapp) reindeer herders.

    A Conversation with Lucy Jago, author of The Northern Lights 2010

  • I learnt traditional Sami (Lapp) methods for preparing reindeer hides, and picked up forest beliefs and customs from people who've lived there for generations.

    Michelle Paver - An interview with author 2010

  • Lapp shamans, too, fasted in anticipation of making a sacrifice.

    Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011

  • Ali Lapp, a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official who runs the House Majority PAC, said last year's heavy spending by Republican groups and the GOP takeover of the House was a wake-up call for Democrats "that we couldn't fight with one hand behind our backs."

    'SuperPACs' could be a game-changer for elections 2011

  • Lapp shamans, too, fasted in anticipation of making a sacrifice.

    Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011

  • Readers may remember that this is the same competition in which managing editor Jordan Lapp took first place for the third quarter of 2008.

    April’s Table of Contents 2009

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