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

Etymology

Origin of Nipissing

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

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

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

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

Champlain and Étienne Brulé, the most daring bushman in New France, followed him thither by way of the Ottawa, Lake Nipissing, French River, and the Georgian Bay.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon

Still she was deeply interested in the plans of the Récollet fathers, who were establishing missions among the Hurons and the Nipissings, and learning the languages.

From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

A young Frenchman, named Martin, was abandoned among the Nipissings; another, named Baron, on reaching the Huron country, was robbed by his conductors of all he had, except the weapons in his hands.

From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Parkman, Francis

He had been some twenty years in Canada, had lived among the savage Algonquins of Allumette Island, and spent eight or nine years among the Nipissings, on the lake which bears their name.

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

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 Parkman, Francis

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

From Pioneers of France in the New World by Parkman, Francis