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Showing words for METIS using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Metis

emits, items, metis, mites, smite, stime, times

4 Letter Words for Metis

emit, item, mest, mets, mist, mite, seit, semi, sime, site, stem, stie, stim, tems, ties, time

3 Letter Words for Metis

ems, esm, est, ise, ism, ist, its, mei, mes, met, mis, mit, mst, mts, sei, sem, set, sie, sim, sit, stm, tem, tes, tie, tim, tis, tsi

Definitions for Metis

[1] any person of mixed ancestry.
[2] (initial capital letter ) Canadian . the offspring of an American Indian and a white person, especially one of French ancestry.
[3] 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.
[4] a person of mixed parentage
[5] Canadian the offspring or a descendant of a French Canadian and a North American Indian 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
[6] US a person having one eighth Black ancestry; octoroon

Words nearby Metis

métisméringue, mésalliance, métayage, métayer, métier, métis, métisse, mézair, mézières, míkonos, mílos

Origin of Metis

étis1810–20; < French, Middle French < Late Latin mixtīcius of mixed blood

Word origin for Metis

MétisC19: from French, from Vulgar Latin mixtīcius (unattested) of mixed race; compare mestizo