Definitions for tepees

tepees te·pee

Spelling: [tee-pee]
IPA: /ˈti pi/

Tepees is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in tepees (eeepst).

Definitions for tepees

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 tepees

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

Examples for tepees

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tepees
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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