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Meaning of "metif" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF METIF

metif  [ˈmeɪtiːf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METIF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metif is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES METIF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of metif in the English dictionary

The definition of metif in the dictionary is a person of mixed race, especially a child or descendant of a Native American and a White European.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METIF


aperitif
əˌperɪˈtiːf
beef
biːf
belief
bɪˈliːf
brief
briːf
chief
tʃiːf
disbelief
ˌdɪsbɪˈliːf
editor-in-chief
ˌɛdɪtəʳɪntˈʃiːf
grief
ɡriːf
leaf
liːf
leitmotif
ˈlaɪtməʊˌtiːf
lief
liːf
massif
ˈmæsiːf
motif
məʊˈtiːf
reef
riːf
reif
riːf
relief
rɪˈliːf
sharif
ʃæˈriːf
sportif
spɔːˈtiːf
Tenerife
ˌtɛnəˈriːf
thief
θiːf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METIF

methylxanthine
methysergide
methysis
methystic
metic
metical
meticulosity
meticulous
meticulously
meticulousness
metoestrous
metoestrus
metol
Metonic cycle
metonym
metonymic
metonymical
metonymically
metonymies
metonymy

WORDS THAT END LIKE METIF

alif
as if
calif
deif
digestif
if
kaif
kharif
kif
Mazar-e-Sharif
Mazar-i-Sharif
only if
positif
Rif
sans serif
seif
serif
sherif
what if
what-if

Synonyms and antonyms of metif in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metif» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METIF

Find out the translation of metif to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of metif from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metif» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

metif
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Métif
570 millions of speakers

English

metif
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

metif
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

metif
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

metif
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Métif
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

metif
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

metif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Métif
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

metif
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

metif
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

metif
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

metif
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटीफ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

metif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metif
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

metif
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

metif
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

metif
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

metif
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metif
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metif
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metif
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metif

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METIF»

The term «metif» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.137 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of metif
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METIF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metif» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metif» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metif

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METIF»

Discover the use of metif in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metif and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
John Relly Beard, Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture. WHITE. BLACK. The offspring of the metif and the female mulatto 88 ... 40 The offspring of the sang- mele and the female marabou 87 ... 41 The offspring of the quarteron and the . 86 .
John Relly Beard, Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture, 1853
2
Light, Bright, and Damned Near White: Biracial and Triracial ...
Early Mixed-Race Classifications: French Classification of Colored People circa 18549 Sacatra griffe and negress Griffe Negro and mulatto Marabon mulatto and griffe Mulatto white and Negro Quadroon white and mulatto Metif white and ...
Stephanie Rose Bird, 2009
3
Metis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
Indian peoples' physical appearance suggest that distinct elements of clothing were worn by Native peoples, but that there were not necessarily distinctions between “metif,” meaning “mixed race,” and other Indian groups. He notes the ...
Christopher Adams, Ian Peach, Gregg Dahl, 2013
4
Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece: Iconography and the ...
ting at the twe ampherae in Figures 9 and 11 side by side. we have the beginning and the end ef the process ef transfermatien fiom tragic scene te funerary metif. On the Tarame amphera we see a picture eveking a scene in the theater, if net a  ...
Eva C. Keuls, 1997
5
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous ...
For some attendees, Aen Ball Metif did as much to unsettle their thoughts about Métis culture and society (not to mention unsettling what they thought about indigeneity more generally) as four decades of reading about Métis nationalism ever ...
Chris Andersen, 2014
6
A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed ...
"half-breed" and "Michif ' (spelled as "Maitiff," "Metif," "Metif," and earlier "Motif") were first encountered in the Canadian fur-trading context (Brown 1980: 172). A book in 1817 called them "Metifs, Bois Brules, or Half-breeds" (Statement 1817: ...
Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus, 1997
7
Actes de la ... Réunion Annuelle de L'Association de ...
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Meeting. APPENDIX CHINESE CHARACTER TEXTS OF QUOTATIONS 4) A si- J .... fcj&iiSdft. SUR QUELQUES PROCESSUS PHONOLOGIQUES, MORPHOLOGIQUES ET LEXICAUX DU METIF ...
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Meeting, 1987
8
Manitoba's Métis settlement scheme of 1870
1 1 8 An argument that section 31 was intended to benefit only the Metif would emphasize that the purpose of extinguishing the Indian title interest was to provide compensation for the group use and occupancy of the public lands, for residents ...
Paul L. A. H. Chartrand, University of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre, 1991
9
The cotton kingdom: a traveller's observations on cotton and ...
Metif white and quarteron. Meamelouo white and metif. Quarteron white and meamelouo. Sang-mele white and quarteron. And all these, with the sub- varieties of them, French, Spanish, English, and Indian, and the sub-sub-varieties , such as ...
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1862
10
A Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory: During the ...
Some time after dark we arrived at Mr. Boun's, a a metif or half Quapaw, and interpreter to the nation, who lived at the first of the Pine Bluffs. Two or three other metif families resided also in the neighbourhood. On the 12th we arrived at ...
Thomas Nuttall, 1821

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METIF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metif is used in the context of the following news items.
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Amitav Ghosh's new one has omens of a different kind
... and opium addict Paulette Lambert, a French orphan who lives on the charity of a new-moneyed British family and Zachary Reid, a 'metif' – of ... «Tehelka, Jun 11»

REFERENCE
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