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• Cree
  Cree

  noun

  a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
• cree
  cree

  noun

  temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children

Cree

American  

[kree] / kri /

noun

Crees plural

1. a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.

2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Cree Indians.

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Cree ¹ British  

/ kriː /

noun

1. a member of a Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

3. a syllabic writing system of this and certain other languages

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cree ² British  

/ kriː /

noun

1. dialect temporary immunity from the rules of a game: said by children

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• Crees
  plural
• Cree
  plural

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

CREE, a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various