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Teepee

Definition: Teepee

Teepee

Noun

1. A native American tent; usually of conical shape.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Teepee

Synonyms: tepee (n), tipi (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Teepee

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Screenplays

It was very dark in your teepee and they were under buffalo rugs as you crawled among them. (Little Big Man; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Calder Willingham)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Teepee

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Books

  • Easy-To-Make Plains Indians Teepee Village (reference)

  • Let's Look Inside a Teepee (reference)

  • Pahaska Teepee Buffalo Bills Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel a History 1901-1946 (reference)

  • Shelters, from Teepee to Igloo (reference)

  • Teepee (A Learn-To-Read for Pre-Schoolers/2nd Dr Wise Reader) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Teepee

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Photo Album: Teepee

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Indian mother and daughter in teepee during a pow wow in Browning, MO. .Credit: USDA.

Pompeys Pillar with teepee and people.Credit: Unknown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Teepee

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

teepee

230

indian teepee

34

teepee tulalip

29

build a teepee

20

teepee picture

18

teepee pole

17

make teepee

14

teepee setup

12

design teepee

11

building teepee

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Teepee

Language Translations for "teepee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

zelt (big top, canopy, marquee, pavilion, tent, wigwam). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepeetay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Teepee

Derivations

Words beginning with "teepee": teepees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Teepee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deeeeep, Eeeee, eeeeee, teape, teele, teepe, teepie, Teepol, teepy, teevee, tempei, tepeek, Trepewet, typee, typeo, typy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Teepee

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-p-t"

-1 letter: tepee.

-2 letters: epee.

-3 letters: pee, pet, tee.

-4 letters: et, pe.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-p-t"
 

+1 letter: teepees.

 

+2 letters: peetweet.

 

+3 letters: peetweets, presentee, steepened.

 

+4 letters: epentheses, epexegetic, gatekeeper, peppertree, persecutee, preelected, preerected, presentees, presweeten, rerepeated, retempered, threepence, timekeeper.

 

+5 letters: centerpiece, gatekeepers, peppertrees, persecutees, perseverate, preemergent, preselected, presentence, presweetens, repleteness, represented, representer, speedometer, steepnesses, storekeeper, terpeneless, threepences, timekeepers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Teepee


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 65 70 65 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    .    .--.    .    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#101 &#112 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0065 0070 0065 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547171827171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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