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

Inflected Forms

noun

• Nippissing
  plural
• Nipissings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Nipissing

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

Example Sentences

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

From still more ambitious Toronto two narrow-gauge routes were built between 1869 and 1874—the Toronto, Grey and Bruce running northwest to Owen Sound and Teeswater, and the Toronto and Nipissing northeast to Coboconk and Sutton.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas