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Hopi [hoh-pee] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural Ho·pis, (especially collectively) Ho·pi for 1. a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona. a Uto-Aztecan language, the language of the Hopi Indians. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of Hopi 1875–80, Americanism; Hopi hópi a Hopi person, literally, good, peaceable Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for hopi Historical Examples of hopi
We ascribed this wall, however, to the ancestors of the Moki (Hopi).
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Remember the sacred bull of Egypt and the snake-dance of the Hopi.
Hamlin Garland
The object of this rite is the fructification of all seeds known to the Hopi.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895
Jesse Walter Fewkes
Oraibi is the most western and conservative of the Hopi villages.
The Indians of the Painted Desert Region
George Wharton James
Not to be strong is to be a bad Hopi, and to be a bad Hopi is to court the disfavor of the gods.
The Indians of the Painted Desert Region
George Wharton James
British Dictionary definitions for hopi Hopi noun plural -pis or -pi a member of a North American Indian people of NE Arizona the language of this people, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family Word Origin for Hopi from Hopi Hópi peaceful Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for hopi Hopi
Pueblo people of the U.S. southwest, from Pueblo hopi, literally “well-mannered, civilized.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
