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Chi·nook C0304800 (shĭ-no͝ok′, chĭ-)n. pl. Chinook or Chi·nooks 1. a. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the lower Columbia River valley and adjoining coastal regions of Washington and Oregon, now located in western Washington. The Chinook traded widely throughout the Pacific Northwest.b. The Chinookan language of the Chinook.2. A member of any of several Chinookan-speaking peoples formerly inhabiting the Columbia River valley eastward to The Dalles and now located in southern Washington and northern Oregon.
[Chehalis (Salishan language of western Washington) c'inúk.]
chi·nook C0304800 (shĭ-no͝ok′, chĭ-)n.1. A moist warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.2. A warm dry wind that descends from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature.3. A Chinook salmon.
[After the Chinook.]chinook (tʃɪˈnuːk; -ˈnʊk) n1. (Physical Geography) Also called: snow eater a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains2. (Physical Geography) Also called: wet chinook a warm moist wind blowing onto the Washington and Oregon coasts from the sea[C19: from Salish c'inuk]
Chinook (tʃɪˈnuːk; -ˈnʊk) npl -nook or -nooks1. (Peoples) a Native American people of the Pacific coast near the Columbia River2. (Languages) the language of this people, probably forming a separate branch of the Penutian phylumChi•nook (ʃɪˈnʊk, -ˈnuk, tʃɪ-)
n., pl. -nooks, (esp. collectively) -nook. 1. a. a member of an American Indian people aboriginally inhabiting the N shore of the mouth of the Columbia River. b. a member of any of a group of peoples including the Chinook of the Columbia River mouth and related peoples to the S and W. c. either of two languages spoken by these peoples, one, now extinct, spoken on both sides of the Columbia estuary (Lower Chinook) and the other spoken W of the estuary (Upper Chinook). 2. (l.c.) a warm, dry wind that blows at intervals down the E slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Chi•nook′an, adj. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | chinook - a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockieschinook wind, snow eaterair current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" | | 2. | Chinook - a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribesPenutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages | | 3. |  chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmonchinook salmon, king salmonOncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawningsalmon - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae | | 4. | Chinook - a Penutian language spoken by the ChinookChinookanPenutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California | | 5. |  chinook - large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawningOncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon, chinook salmon, king salmonsalmon - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawngenus Oncorhynchus, Oncorhynchus - Pacific salmon including sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; chum salmon; coho salmonchinook salmon, king salmon, chinook - pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon |
Chinook
chinook, warm, dry air mass that descends the eastern slopes of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mts. after having lost moisture by condensation over the western slopes. Chinooks occur mainly in winter. They sometimes replace the cold continental air mass over the western plains, causing rapid melting of snow and temperature increases as great as 40°F; (22°C;) within a few hours. Similar winds occurring in the Alps and elsewhere are known as foehn winds. The term chinook was originally applied by Oregon settlers to a moist Pacific wind blowing from the direction of a Chinook camp.
Chinook (shĭno͝ok`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. Altogether twelve main tribes spoke Chinook languages; all were in the Columbia River valley. The Chinook themselves were on the lower extremity of the river and, with the Clatsop, constituted the now extinct Lower Chinook branch of the linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). The village was their main social unit, and a wealthy chief might control several villages. Slavery was common among the Chinook. Their food consisted mostly of fish, roots, and berries. They were skilled with canoes, were noted traders, and practiced the custom of potlatchpotlatch
, ceremonial feast of the natives of the NW coast of North America, entailing the public distribution of property. The host and his relatives lavishly distributed gifts to invited guests, who were expected to accept any gifts offered with the understanding that at a
..... Click the link for more information. . They lacked the totemic art and the secret societies of their neighbors. They were well known to the traders on the Pacific coast in the late 18th cent., and a corrupted form of their language known as Chinook jargon served as a trade language from the Columbia River to Alaska. There were some 800 Chinook in the United States in 1990, working primarily in fishing, logging, and lumbering.Chinook a southwesterly foehn that blows on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the USA and on the adjacent parts of the prairie. The chinook is accompanied by a very sudden, sharp increase in air temperature of as much as 20° to 30°C, which facilitates increased melting of snow, faster ripening of fruit, and so on. The chinook is observed year-round but is especially frequent in the winter. The term “chinook” is also applied to the moist southwesterly wind that blows from the Pacific Ocean along the western coast of the USA. chinook[shə′nu̇k] (meteorology) The foehn on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. Chinook1. a North American Indian people of the Pacific coast near the Columbia River 2. the language of this people, probably forming a separate branch of the Penutian phylum chinook
Synonyms for chinooknoun a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the RockiesSynonymsRelated Words- air current
- current of air
- wind
noun a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia riverRelated Wordsnoun pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmonSynonyms- chinook salmon
- king salmon
Related Words- Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
- quinnat salmon
- chinook salmon
- king salmon
- chinook
- salmon
noun a Penutian language spoken by the ChinookSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun large Pacific salmon valued as foodSynonyms- Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
- quinnat salmon
- chinook salmon
- king salmon
Related Words- salmon
- genus Oncorhynchus
- Oncorhynchus
- chinook salmon
- king salmon
- chinook
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