Hopi
/ˈhəʊpi
/noun (plural same or Hopis)
1A member of a Pueblo Indian people living chiefly in NE Arizona.They like to be called what they are - Utes, Hopis, Zunis - and collectively, they answer to ‘first people’....
- With coal, natural gas, oil and uranium minerals resources, the Hopis are members of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.
- They share this language with tribes to the south of them, as well as with the Hopis in the Four Corners region of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
2 [mass noun] The Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi, with around 2,000 speakers.He never actually spoke to a native speaker of Hopi, or even got closer to one than about 200 miles....
- Young and Morgan point out that Navajo, like Japanese, Hopi, Korean, and Persian, is a verb-final language following a subject/object/verb pattern.
- Most Hopis today, including the younger generations, speak both Hopi and English.
adjective
Relating to the Hopi or their language.Phoebe Hearst bought most of the tastefully draped baskets and blankets, Hopi kachina dolls, and Navajo silver in her Pleasanton house from the Fred Harvey Company of Albuquerque - once again playing it safe....
- Near the top there are more canyon views, but the sand paintings depicting Hopi legends, and the design of the building itself, have a way of commanding your attention.
- The Hopi Snake dance is the well-known ‘classic example’.
Origin
The name in Hopi.
Rhymes
- personless
- personnel
- personnel car
- personnel carrier
- personnel department
- personnel transfer capsule
- personnelwise
- person-object
- person of colour
- personological
- personologist
- personology
- person-oriented
- person perception
- personpower
- personship
- person-to-person
- personëity
- persorption
- persp.
- persp
- perspection
- perspectival
- perspective
- perspective control