Meanings
plural Ojibways
- archaicArchaic spelling of Ojibwe.
I put Lake Wobegon (pop. 942) on the western shore of the lake, for the beautiful sunrises. I said it took its name from an Ojibway word that means “the place where we waited all day for you in the rain,” and its slogan was “Sumus quod sumus” (We are who we are), […]
2001 August 26, Garrison Keillor, “In Search of Lake Wobegon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna member of an Algonquian people who stretch from present-day Ontario in eastern Canada all the way into Montana, above and around Lake Superior
nounthe Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Ojibway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ojibway
“Ojibway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ojibway. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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