Nipissing

American  

[nip-uh-sing] / ˈnɪp ə sɪŋ /

noun

• Nipissings,
  plural
• Nippissing
  plural

1. Lake Nipissing, a lake in southeastern Canada, in Ontario, north of Georgian Bay. 330 sq. mi. (855 sq. km).

2. a member of one of the First Nations of Ontario, a division of the Ojibwe people, historically living along the northern shore of Lake Nipissing.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Nipissing.

Nipissing British  

/ ˈnɪpɪsɪŋ /

noun

1. a lake in central Canada, in E Ontario between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. Area: 855 sq km (330 sq miles)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Nipissings
  plural
• Nippissing
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Nipissing

First recorded in 1740–50; from French Nipissingue, from Ojibwe Nipissink, the name of Lake Nipissing

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Example Sentences

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Nipissing Nipissings

Indigenous people are used to be invisible, keeping our heads down Bear Witness “My reserve, Nipissing, was out of walking distance to the nearest town,” Campeau said.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2015

Some American Red Cross divisions use the stuffed red blood cell in school presentations, and the Education Centre Library serving Ontario's Canadore College and Nipissing University has dozens of Giant Microbes in its lending inventory.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2010

Michael Friedsam, president of Altman's department store; Ellis P. Earle, president of Nipissing Mines, great Canadian producers of silver, cobalt, nickel, arsenic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

They used to paddle up the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing and then down the French River to the Georgian Bay, and so up Lake Huron round the rapids and on into Lake Superior.

From The Rapids by Alan Sullivan

To the westward, along the Ottawa River, and skirting the north shore of Lake Huron to Michillimackinac and Green Bay, were the strong French allies, the Hurons, Ottawas, Nipissings, Kiskagons, Sacs, Foxes, and Mascoutins.

From The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin

Strange stories were current among the Nipissings of a people without hair and without beards, who came from the West to trade with a tribe beyond the Great Lakes.

From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman

Nicollet, as a very young man, had lived for years amongst the Amerindian tribes, especially amongst the Nipissings near the lake of that name.

From Pioneers in Canada by E. Wallcousins

There were fully five hundred of them, Hurons, Ottawas, Ojibwas, Pottawatamies, Crees, and Nipissings, with a hundred and ten canoes laden with beaver skins to the value of nearly a hundred thousand crowns.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

The burden of the reply was, rapids, rocks, cataracts, and the wickedness of the Nipissings.

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

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