Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A portable dwelling of certain Native American peoples, especially on the Great Plains, consisting of a conical framework of poles covered with skins or bark.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Indian wigwam or tent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Indian wigwam or tent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
teepee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Native American tent; usually of conical shape
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"A tepee is a temporary home; the wigwam is the Indian's permanent abiding place."
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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And after awhile he tells himself that he don't mind smoke and the smell of buckskin, and a tepee is a better home nor none, and that he thinks as much of this here Mary Moonbeam or Sally Star-eyes as he could think of any woman, and he wonders when the priest could come.
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories CO Colorado Aspen 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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