Cree
noun
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
Cree
American
[kree]
/ kri /
noun
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Crees,
plural
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Cree
plural
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a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Cree Indians.
Cree
1
British
/ kriː /
noun
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a member of a Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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a syllabic writing system of this and certain other languages
cree
2
British
/ kriː /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Cree1
from first syllable of Canadian French Christianaux, probably based on Ojibwa Kenistenoag (tribal name)
Origin of cree2
of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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He is survived by his wife, Cinda Cree Hicks, six children and 14 grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Melanie Cree and her husband Alan, from Bangor in Northern Ireland, were due to fly home from Corfu Airport on the day of the outage.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
Based on Cree values and a commitment to Indigenous food sovereignty, it provides a rich example of a systemic and structural solution to addressing food insecurity at a more local level.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024
Cree usually loves to join me because he loves food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Tomorrow Berlin wouldn’t be able to help because she’d be in a full-day intensive with a visiting Elder who was fluent in Southern Michif and Plains Cree, who had only enough English to get by.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The court will hear arguments on this subject in mid-October, may take several months to write its de cree.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod, the church's highest governing body.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Cree, cree, cree,” Frightful answered from a leafless maple.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The door of Ruttledge's office whispered: ee: cree.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Luis de Leon implicitly denied the charge, which he manifestly thought beneath contempt: 'Y si yo hubiera tratado como Leon cree de que la Inquisicion vedara su libro, yo hiciera que se advirtiera.
From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
For third-year engineering student Michelle Crees, there is a lack of clarity over what to expect over the coming weeks.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
A respected figure among the Crees, his Indigenous community, the tallyman made sure there were enough animals and other resources in the trapline for current and future generations.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Mr. Saganash, the tallyman who has long fought against logging, belongs to the Crees centered in Waswanipi, a town eight hours north by car from Montreal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Says Ian Goodman, a Boston-based environmental consultant who has advised the Crees: "It's like a giant science experiment to see what happens to an area as large as New England, New York and Pennsylvania combined."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Crees are said to style it Wachusk mitsu-in, i.e. that which the musk-rats eat.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell
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