Menominee

noun

Me·​nom·​i·​nee mə-ˈnä-mə-nē 

variants or less commonly Menomini

1

plural Menominee or Menominees also Menomini or Menominis : a member of an Indigenous people of northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula

2

: the Algonquian language of the Menominee people

Examples of Menominee in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The heaviest chances are over the western and southern Upper Peninsula, including Menominee, Escanaba and Iron Mountain, where up to a half inch of snow could mix with a light glaze of ice. —Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 6 Jan. 2026

Tribal leaders from across Turtle Island (North America) converged on the Menominee Reservation this fall to celebrate the return of buffalo to the tribe. —Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025

Wilsey is from Menominee, Michigan, and studied at Post University, a private for-profit college in Connecticut, according to her Facebook page. —Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Ojibwa mano·mini· (manoominii), literally, "wild rice people," derivative of mano·min (manoomin) "wild rice"

Note: According to the Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15, Northeast (Smithsonian Institution, 1978), p. 723, "the Menominee name for themselves, omɛ·ʔnomene·w is of obscure etymology but is clearly not derived from their word mano·meh 'wild rice'."

First Known Use

1722, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for Menominee

• abc
• absentee
• addressee
• adoptee
• agouti
• allottee
• amphorae
• amputee
• apc
• apogee
• appointee
• assessee

Geographical Definition

Menominee

geographical name

Me·​nom·​i·​nee mə-ˈnä-mə-nē 

river 125 miles (201 kilometers) long in northeastern Wisconsin flowing southeast on the Michigan–Wisconsin border into Green Bay