Definition of Chipewyan
plural Chipewyan
or Chipewyans
or Chippewaian
or Chippewaians
or Chippewyan
or Chippewyans
1 a
: an Athapaskan people closely related to the Slave and Yellowknife people and living north of the Churchill river between the Great Slave lake and the Slave and Athabaska rivers on the west and Hudson Bay on the east
b
: a member of such people
2
: the language of the Chipewyan people
