Dene

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Dene /ˈdɛneɪ, ˈdɛni/

▶noun (pl. same)

• 1 a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the Canadian North-West and Alaska.

• 2 any of the Athabaskan languages of the Dene.

– origin from Fr. Déné, from an Athabaskan word meaning ‘people’.

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dene1 /diːn/ (also dean)

▶noun [usu. in place names] Brit. a deep, narrow, wooded valley.

– origin OE denu, of Gmc origin; rel. to den.

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dene2 /diːn/

▶noun dialect a bare sandy tract or low sandhill by the sea.

– origin ME: perh. of Gmc origin and rel. to dune.