Tepee

Definition: Tepee

Tepee

Noun

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

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

Date "tepee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms: Tepee

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Crosswords: Tepee

Italian (tepee, tepees).

Tepee for Two (1963)

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

Books

• Black Holes and Tepee Rings: On Cosmic Mysteries and Spiritual Mythology (reference)

• Glass Tepee (reference)

• Shelters: From Tepee to Igloo (reference)

• Tales of the Tepee (reference)

• Tepee and Moccasin: Indian Craft for Young People. (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Roylene Rides at the Door-Waln, NRCS Resource Conservationist measures the diameter of a tepee ring located on a ranchers pasture near Shelby, MT. Tepee rings were used in place of tent pegs before the use of steel. [Slide 97CS3045].Credit: Bob Nichols.

Sioux tepee.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tasunki Witko and three women outside tepee.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hut and tepee, probably St. Clair Flats, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

Moose harnessed for work beside tepee [i.e. tipi].Credit: Library of Congress.

Indian tepee. Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.

An Indian woman in front of her tepee. Many Indians on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico live in such primitive tents.Credit: Library of Congress.

Devil's Tower or Bear Lodge (Mato [i.e. Mateo] Tepee of the Indians), on the Belle Fourche. Description on back.Credit: Library of Congress.

"Devil's Tower." Devil's Tower or Bear Lodge. (Mato [i.e. Mateo] Tepee of the Indians), as seen from the east side. Located near the Belle Fourche river, in Wyoming.Credit: Library of Congress.

Quanah Parker, Comanche Indian Chief, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding feathers, in front of tepee.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Bulgarian 

индианска колиба (wigwam). (various references)

Finnish

lappalaiskota (Lapplander's hut), kota (capsule, hut). (various references)

German

Wigwam (Lodge, wigwam). (various references)

Greek 

σκηνή ινδιάνων, σκηνή ερυθρόδερμων. (various references)

Hungarian

wigwam, indián sátor (wigwam). (various references)

Italian

tepee (tepees). (various references)

Pig Latin

epeetay

Russian 

вигвам североамериканских индейцев, вигвам (wigwam). (various references)

Swedish

indiantält. (various references)

Thai

กระโจมของชาวอินเ�"ียนแ�"ง. (various references)

Turkish

kızılderili çadırı (wigwam). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tepee": tepees. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tepee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tapee, teape, tebe, teep, teepe, teepie, Teepol, teepy, teevee, Tegea, telea, Telecel, telee, teleo, tempei, tepa, tepeek, tepi, teppe, tepues, teree, teve, teze, tipee, Tipy, topie, tpy, Trepewet, tupee, typee, typy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: epee.

-2 letters: pee, pet, tee.

-3 letters: et, pe.

+1 letter: teepee, tepees.

+2 letters: deepest, deplete, epeeist, pentene, petered, premeet, preteen, replete, steeped, steepen, steeper, steeple, teepees, terpene.

+3 letters: acceptee, departee, depleted, depletes, deportee, epeeists, excepted, exempted, expected, expedite, experted, helpmeet, nepenthe, patentee, peetweet, pelleted, peltered, pentenes, permeate, pestered, pesterer, pewterer, preelect, preerect, preteens, pretence, pretense, protegee, repartee, repeated, repeater, repented, repenter, repetend, rerepeat, retemper, seepiest, septette, steepens, steepers, steepest, steepled, steeples, tempered, temperer, tenpence, tepefied, tepefies, terpenes, threeped, toepiece, weepiest.

+4 letters: acceptees, appetence, benempted, centipede, creepiest, deceptive, deepwater, departees, dependent, depletive, deportees, deprecate, depredate, desperate, elopement, epaulette, epicenter, exceptive, excerpted, excerpter, expedient, expedited, expediter, expedites, expertise, expertize, expletive, extempore, helpmeets, leptotene, nepenthes, nephelite, papeterie, patentees, peacetime, pedometer, peetweets, pelletise, pelletize, penetrate, penitence, perennate, perfected, perfecter, perimeter, permeated, permeates, permittee, persecute, perverted, perverter, pesterers, petechiae, pewterers, poetesses, precedent, precented, preedited, preelects, preempted, preerects, preheated, preheater, prelected, preselect, presented, presentee, presenter, pretences, pretended, pretender, pretenses, preterite, pretested, pretexted, prevented, preventer, protegees, puppeteer, receipted, receptive, reoperate, repartees, repeaters, repellent, repenters, repetends, represent, rerepeats, respected, respecter, retempers, sceptered, septettes, sheepcote, sleepiest, speediest, speedster, steepened, steepness, superette, sweepiest, telephone, telescope, telphered, temperate, temperers, tempested, tenpences, timepiece, toepieces, treponeme.

+5 letters: afterpiece, appetences, attempered, becarpeted, carpetweed, centipedes, competence, dependents, depletable, deprecated, deprecates, depreciate, depredated, depredates, elopements, enterprise, epauletted, epaulettes, epentheses, epenthesis, epenthetic, epexegetic, epicenters, epigenetic, epithelize, escapement, exasperate, excerpters, expectable, expectance, expectedly, expedients, expediters, experiment, expertises, expertized, expertizes, expertness, expletives, gatekeeper, heptameter, hypermeter, hypertense, leptotenes, nepenthean, nephelites, outpreened, outspeeded, pacesetter, papeteries, peacetimes, pedestaled, pedimented, pedometers, pelletised, pelletises, pelletized, pelletizer, pelletizes, pendentive, penetrable, penetrance, penetrated, penetrates, penitences, pentameter, peppertree, percentage, percentile, perceptive, perennated, perennates, perfecters, perfectest, perfective, perimeters, peripeteia, peripeties, permeative, permittees, perpetrate, perpetuate, persecuted, persecutee, persecutes, pertinence, pertnesses, perverters, pestilence, petiteness, piezometer, postfreeze, praelected, precedents, preceptive, predestine, preelected, preeminent, preemptive, preenacted, preerected, preexisted, prefecture, preferment, preheaters, preselects, presentees, presenters, presweeten, pretenders, preterites, pretheater, pretreated, prevenient, preventers, preventive, puppeteers, reaccepted, recarpeted, receptacle, recuperate, redemptive, reexported, reoperated, reoperates, repeatable, repeatedly, repellents, repentance, repertoire, repetitive, represents, rerepeated, respecters, respective, retempered, serpentine, sheepcotes, speedsters, spleeniest, steepening, stereopses, stereotype, superelite, superettes, supersweet, sweepstake, telephoned, telephoner, telephones, teleported, telescoped, telescopes, temperable, temperance, terneplate, terreplein, threepence, threepenny, timekeeper, timepieces, treehopper, treponemes, typesetter, unexpected, untempered, vespertine.

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