Hopi

/ˈhoʊpi/
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Other forms: Hopis

Definitions of Hopi
  1. noun
    a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
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    Pueblo
    a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock)
    Shoshone, Shoshoni
    a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
  2. noun
    the Shoshonean language spoken by the Hopi
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    Shoshonean, Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language
    a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States
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