Cree
- a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- an Algonquian language, the language of the Cree Indians.
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Contemporary Examples of cree
Hero Peregrine – Actress Cree Summer gave this name to her daughter, who joined sister Brave Littlewing.
Kate Winslet’s Bear Rocknroll & Other Crazy Celebrity Baby Names of 2013Pamela Redmond Satran/Nameberry
December 23, 2013
The challenge for Cree is that LEDs are really expensive, compared to traditional bulbs.
Cree is primarily a supplier to commercial and industrial users.
Historical Examples of cree
His face was almost as inscrutable as that of the Sphinx, or a Cree Indian.
Boy Scouts on Hudson BayG. Harvey Ralphson
"Go on ahead, Tamasjo, and find the trail," said Ned to the waiting Cree.
Boy Scouts on Hudson BayG. Harvey Ralphson
How silly that some one had not thought of the old Cree before.
Boy Scouts on Hudson BayG. Harvey Ralphson
In one corner stood the wheel at which Cree had to fill his own pirns.
Auld Licht IdyllsJ. M. Barrie
He payed off all he owed, and so Cree's life was not, I think, a failure.
Auld Licht IdyllsJ. M. Barrie
cree
- South Wales and Southwest English dialect temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children
Word Origin for cree
Cree
- plural Cree or Crees a member of a Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
- the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
- a syllabic writing system of this and certain other languages
Word Origin for Cree
Word Origin and History for cree
Cree
1744, from phonetic rendering of Canadian French Cris, short for Christinaux, from Ojibwa (Algonquian) *kiristino, originally referring to a group in the Hudson Bay region.