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éپ

1

[ Canadian mey-tee; mey-tee, -tees ]

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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Derived Forms

  • éپse, noun:feminine
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yvlog 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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yvlog 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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