Metis

Word METIS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /meɪˈtiː/

Definitions and meanings of "Metis"

What do we mean by metis?

A person of mixed-race ancestry.

A person of mixed European and Indigenous descent.

A person who self-identifies as Métis.

A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon.

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The word "metis" in example sentences

Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's Bay ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

It may be a corruption of Mahomet "Mohammed", or even a combination of two greek words, baphe and metis, meaning 'absorption of knowledge'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Only the uncovered CFL registered on the card, a 1″. metis Says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

How does the signal get back fro my computer to the lamp though? metis Says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

AT 1: 44 Begley starts aggressively pointing and figeting in his chair while arguing the metis of a climate scientists vs a physist who the host referenced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mekala name of the goddess of the sea metis term of the colonial period used to refer to children of mixed parentage wherein one parent was European mise en valeur term used to legitimate the French colonial presence mission civilisatrice the perceived responsibility countries of the French in modernizing the and peoples it colonized mit neary ❋ Unknown (2009)

My understanding is that the Louisiana Creole people have a long history of existing between black and white, the way mestizo and metis people have existed between Native American and white in various societies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, newspaper debates, conferences and TV shows have been dedicated to the question: "Is Obama really black -- or is he metis?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

Medicean, Austrian, and Burbonian stars, that the heaven of the planets is indistinct, pure, and open, in which the planets move certis legibus ac metis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A metis doesn't like the city, despite its friends. ❋ Blue Tyson (2007)

At Mission school I was a metis, a cafe au lait, a shaven pig. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

I too was taught to sing those words at school in proud unison with my classmates, until the day they poked their fingers at the secret child and screamed: Pas Salvo, pas le metis! ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

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