Definitions for tepee

tepee te·pee

Spelling: [tee-pee]
IPA: /ˈti pi/

Tepee is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in tepee (eeept).

Definitions for tepee

noun

  1. a tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.

Origin of tepee

1735-45, Americanism; Dakota tʰípi, equivalent to tʰí- to dwell + -pi plural indefinite abstract noun suffix

Examples for tepee

In the tepee, they had a great kettle of dog soup, as it was a feast.

The skin-lodge (tepee) has given place to the cottage and the mansion.

He picked him up and put him back on his horse and took him to his tepee.

As he peered in at the tepee door Wetherell perceived Pogosa dimly.

Out West, in a tepee, on a reservation, alcohol, drug abuse, drain on society, poverty, uneducated—beaten down.

Sierra Vista was a far vaster affair than the tepee of Grey Beaver.

Then the other said, “My friend, let us go home,” so he went with him to his tepee.

A mutter of voices in Pogosa's tepee interrupted his thought.

Pogosa was waiting, squatted on the ground at some distance from her tepee.

Nothing happened, though the adjacent portions of the tepee moved.

Word Value for tepee
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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