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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Also returning from the original are Cree Summer, Dawnn Lewis and Allen, who directs the first episode.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He is survived by his wife, Cinda Cree Hicks, six children and 14 grandchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Cree will get on his bike, I will put Cairo in a wagon and we’re off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Wally Bruns, chief of James Smith Cree Nation, said he hopes the inquest will provide recommendations about self-administered policing for the First Nation.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Six Cree groups in western Canada disappeared after 1781; the Blackfoot nation, blasted by smallpox, sent peace emissaries to Shoshone bands, only to find that all had vanished.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
The court will hear arguments on this subject in mid-October, may take several months to write its de cree.
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
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
Over the years, the Crees have pushed for greater protection of their traditional territory in northern Quebec, which are mostly on provincial lands.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The Crees now have a strong legal claim that this last part of the deal is being broken.
From Time Magazine Archive
He says that it took its name from a place on its banks known as Peace Point, where the Crees and Beaver Indians settled their disputes.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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