tipi

IPA/ˈtiː.piː/
IPA/ˈtiː.piː/

tipi — noun

  • tipisingular
  • tipisplural

1. a cone-shaped shelter made from animal skins or large pieces of canvas, held up

1.名詞B1
釋義

a cone-shaped shelter made from animal skins or large pieces of canvas, held up by long wooden poles, and used by some Indigenous peoples of North America as a portable home that can be taken down and moved easily.

例句

The Lakota family set up their tipi near the river before sunset.

set up a tipi (collocation for erecting)

Grandmother showed Yumi how to arrange the wooden poles for the tipi frame.

同義詞
  • tepee

    older English spelling; same structure — 'tepee' was the standard 19th-century spelling borrowed from Sioux languages

  • teepee

    variant spelling common in informal and older texts; identical meaning to tepee and tipi

文法句型

tipi + verb (stand / house / collapse)

用法筆記

The spelling 'tipi' comes from the Lakota word thípi meaning 'dwelling' and is preferred by many Indigenous communities over the older English spellings 'tepee' or 'teepee'. All three spellings appear in modern English, but 'tipi' is increasingly common in respectful, culturally aware writing.

常見錯誤

❌The tipi is a kind of house.
✅The tipi is a kind of tent or portable shelter.
💡A tipi is designed to be moved frequently, unlike a fixed house.
❌The Native Americans lived in tipis.
✅Some Plains Indigenous peoples traditionally lived in tipis.
💡Not all Indigenous groups used tipis; it is specific to certain cultures of the Great Plains.