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PRONUNCIATION OF WINDIGO

windigo  [ˈwɪndɪˌɡəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WINDIGO

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Windigo 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 WINDIGO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wendigo

The Wendigo is a demonic half-beast creature appearing in the legends of the Algonquian peoples along the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The creature or spirit could either possess characteristics of a human or a monster that had physically transformed from a person. It is particularly associated with cannibalism. The Algonquian believed those who indulged in eating human flesh were at particular risk; the legend appears to have reinforced the taboo of the practice of cannibalism. It is often described in Algonquian mythology as a balance of nature. The legend lends its name to the disputed modern medical term Wendigo Psychosis. This is supposed to be a culture-bound disorder that features symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear the sufferer is a cannibal. This condition was alleged to have occurred among Algonquian native cultures, but remains disputed. The Wendigo character now is a common creature found in modern horror fiction.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WINDIGO


Abednego
əˈbɛdnɪˌɡəʊ
adjigo
ˈædʒɪˌɡəʊ
archipelago
ˌɑːkɪˈpɛlɪˌɡəʊ
Bendigo
ˈbɛndɪˌɡəʊ
galapago
ɡəˈlæpəˌɡəʊ
I-go
ˈaɪˌɡəʊ
indigo
ˈɪndɪˌɡəʊ
latigo
ˈlætɪˌɡəʊ
lobbygow
ˈlɒbɪˌɡəʊ
sapsago
ˈsæpsəˌɡəʊ
vertigo
ˈvɜːtɪˌɡəʊ
wendigo
ˈwɛndɪˌɡəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WINDIGO

windflaw
windflower
windgall
windgalled
windgun
Windhoek
windhover
windier
Windies
windiest
windily
windiness
winding
winding drum
winding sheet
winding staircase
winding-up
windingly
windjammer
windjamming

WORDS THAT END LIKE WINDIGO

amigo
caligo
fons et origo
impetigo
intertrigo
jerepigo
lentigo
loligo
mendigo
porrigo
prurigo
Rodrigo
serpigo
Sligo
tentigo
Vigo
vitiligo
wild indigo

Synonyms and antonyms of windigo in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «windigo» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WINDIGO

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Translator English - Chinese

windigo
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

windigo
570 millions of speakers

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windigo
510 millions of speakers

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windigo
380 millions of speakers
ar

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windigo
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Windigo
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

windigo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

windigo
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Windigo
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Windigo
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Windigo
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

windigo
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

windigo
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Windigo
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Windigo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

windigo
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विंडिगो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Wendigo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Windigo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Windigo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Windigo
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Windigo
30 millions of speakers
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Windigo
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

windigo
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Windigo
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

windigo
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WINDIGO»

The term «windigo» is regularly used and occupies the 69.357 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about windigo

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WINDIGO»

Discover the use of windigo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to windigo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and ...
'For this type of book to really work beyond the level of simplistic postmodern deconstruction, it needed to be written by someone with a great deal of first hand experience and a first class analytical mind.
James Burgess Waldram, 2004
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Windigo Twilight
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Colleen Rhoads, 2005
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Windigo
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Jane Annixter, 2009
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Windigo, an anthology of fact and fantastic fiction
Forty-four passages of fact and fantastic fiction - legends and lore, stories and poems, descriptions and interpretations - concerned with Windigo, the horrible and terrible spirit which haunts Algonkian-speaking Indians of Canada.
John Robert Colombo, 1982
5
Windigo Soul
It's Hank Reed's birthday.
Robert Brumm, 2012
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Windigo Thrall
“The Windigo has a heart of ice.” The legends of an ancient cannibal demon might have been enthralling, but they were folklore.
Cate Culpepper, 2014
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The Windigo's Return: A North Woods Story
When the fearsome Windigo begins to prey upon the People of the North Woods, a girl named Morning Star comes up with a plan to stop him.
Douglas Wood, 1996
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Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of ...
Its blood is rank and yellowish! Its voice is hoarse and bellowish! —Ogden Nash, "The Wendigo" (1936) any are the monsters that haunt the woods of North America, but none is more terrible than the Windigo — the very incarnation of terror.
David D. Gilmore, 2011
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Red Tag Windigo
Red Tag Windigo consciously deflects the focus of the reader away from the flawed image of the windigo the text presents, and onto the narrator's flawed perspective of that image, illustrating a connection between misrepresentation and ...
Caleb Zimmerman, 2008
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Maternal Conditions: Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, ...
However, the pregnant Native mother as windigo-slayer also functions on a larger social symbolic level. If it is the mother and child together who defeat the windigo, or, in a larger sense, the fact that the child is born at all, that defeats the  ...
Melissa A. Schoeffel, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WINDIGO»

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Heritage Hump Day: Windigo - "The Ballad of Reichen Overgraaben"
Or that his band Windigo, one of Arizona's heaviest bands, based a lot of mythology on their first and only long player on guy named Reichen Overgraaben, ... «Phoenix New Times, Jul 15»
2
Windigo Are Dusting Off Calgary's Cobwebs
But bands like Windigo are bringing a clean, youthful, and upbeat energy as an inadvertent attempt to revitalize a musical climate that's grown jaded and old. «Noisey, May 15»
3
Ontario given extension to appeal traditional medicine case – again
The deadline is next Friday and with that looming APTN's Delaney Windigo spoke to a Mohawk elder who reflects on his own experience when he was told not ... «APTN National News, Apr 15»
4
Windigo bringing melodic indie pop to Nickle Theatre at Calgary's …
It was one of Kameka's first shows with his new band Windigo, and the group's ... Windigo plays the Nickle Theatre at Mount Royal University on Saturday with ... «MetroNews Canada, Mar 15»
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Monster Face-Off: Everybody's Dracula v. Indigenous Windigo
Hilahi yu, very long ago, monsters walked the earth and sometimes made trouble for human beings. Some people think that is still the case. Whether they still ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Feb 15»
6
'Windigo' malware campaign spreads to porn websites
ESET detailed “Operation Windigo” in March 2014, noting the campaign had already infected 25,000 Unix and Linux servers. In a preview of a talk he'll give in ... «SC Magazine, Jan 15»
7
"Windigo Island"
Windigo Island entwines two disparate elements in an intriguing mystery. The first is the Ojibwa myth of a horrifyingly destructive beast called the Windigo that in ... «Peninsula Pulse, Jan 15»
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'Windigo' research wins first annual Péter Szőr award
When, in November last year, we heard of the passing of Péter Szőr, we wanted to do something to keep the memory of Péter alive. Not only was Péter a ... «Virus Bulletin, Sep 14»
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Pick of the week: 'Dirty Copper' and 'Windigo Island'
Krueger's "Windigo Island" is the latest in his series featuring northern Minnesota private investigator Cork O'Connor, who is part Ojibwe. In this thriller Cork is ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Aug 14»
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REVIEWS: 'Faces in the Crowd,' by Valeria Luiselli, and 'Windigo
In “Windigo Island,” William Kent Krueger's 14th Cork O'Connor mystery, private investigator O'Connor turns his big brain and prodigious courage to finding a ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Aug 14»

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