METIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Metis" is a kind of...):

mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)

Domain region:

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

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