Metis

Meanings

1. One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.

1. A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
2. A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.

1. A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena
2. A satellite of Jupiter.
3. 9 Metis, a main belt asteroid.

1. A person of mixed-race ancestry.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Metis (“a member of one of three Canadian Aboriginal peoples; any person of mixed European and Indigenous descent”).
3. A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon.

1. Of mixed heritage
2. Of Métis heritage.

1. Practical intelligence; street smarts.

1. plural of METI

Etymology

Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee.

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