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éپ

1
Also ·پ

[mey-tee, -tees, mey-tee]

noun

plural

éپ 
  1. Canadian.a person of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the éپ Nation, recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples.

  2. éپ, any person of mixed racial ancestry.



adjective

  1. Canadian.belonging or relating to the éپ.

    éپ communities developed along the fur trade routes.

  2. éپ, being of mixed racial ancestry.

Metis

2

[mee-tis]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. a Titaness, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and the mother of Athena by Zeus. Zeus swallowed Metis, and Athena was born from his head.

éپ

/ mɛˈtiːs, mɛˈtiːs /

noun

  1. a person of mixed parentage

    1. the offspring or a descendant of a French Canadian and a North American Indian

    2. a member or descendant of a group of such people, who established themselves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as a distinct political and cultural force during the nineteenth century

  2. a person having one eighth Black ancestry; octoroon

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • éپse noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of éپ1

First recorded in 1810–20; from French, Middle French, from Late Latin īܲ “of mixed blood”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of éپ1

C19: from French, from Vulgar Latin īܲ (unattested) of mixed race; compare mestizo
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Example Sentences

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Massoud also pauses at a monument to Louis Riel, a 19th-century Canadian revolutionary of Franco-Chipewyan éپ descent, who was executed in 1885 for leading an Indigenous rebellion for civil rights.

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Bellingham-based artist Natasha Donovan, who is éپ — a recognized Canadian aboriginal people with mixed European and Indigenous ancestry — drew the illustration, which depicts Adam speaking next to fishermen on a river under a sunset.

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Mr Beauvais, 68, was raised éپ - an indigenous people in Canada of mixed indigenous and European ancestry.

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Mr Ambrose has connected with his biological relatives, and has become a member of the Manitoba éپ Federation.

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In particular METIS, the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph, will give astronomers unrivalled views of the inner regions of planet-forming discs, where planets like Earth form.

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