wigwam

/ˈwɪɡwæm/ (bre, ipa) · [wˈɪɡwɑm] /ˈwɪɡwɑːm/ (ame, ipa) · [wˈɪɡwɑm] /ˈwig-ˌwäm How to pronounce wigwam (audio)/ (ame, mw)

wigwam — noun

  • wigwamsingular
  • wigwamsplural

1. a round home that some Indigenous peoples of North America built by bending a fr

1.名詞B1
釋義

a round home that some Indigenous peoples of North America built by bending a frame of thin tree trunks into a dome and covering it with bark, animal skins, or woven grass mats.

例句

Sana walked inside a reconstructed wigwam at the cultural centre in Ontario.

reconstructed + wigwam: museum or heritage context

The museum guide explained that a wigwam was built from saplings and covered with birch bark.

同義詞
  • tepee

    a taller, cone-shaped tent made of animal skins, used by Plains tribes — wigwams have a rounded dome shape and are built differently

  • lodge

    a broader term that can refer to any traditional Indigenous dwelling, including wigwams

用法筆記

Commonly confused with tepee, which is the cone-shaped tent used by Plains nations. This sense only names the dome-shaped dwelling specific to the eastern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

常見錯誤

❌The Plains people lived in wigwams.
✅The Plains people lived in tepees.
💡Wigwams were used by nations in the eastern woodlands and Great Lakes region; tepees were used by nations on the Great Plains.

2. a cone-shaped or dome-shaped structure made of sticks, canes, or bamboo that gar

2.名詞B2
釋義

a cone-shaped or dome-shaped structure made of sticks, canes, or bamboo that gardeners put in the ground so that climbing plants such as beans, peas, or cucumbers can grow up and around it.

例句

Lukas built a garden wigwam of bamboo sticks for the runner beans to climb.

collocation: a wigwam of [material] + for [plant] to climb

Constanza tied the tomato branches loosely to the wigwam frame so they grew toward the sun.

同義詞
  • trellis

    a flat or arched frame for climbing plants, not cone-shaped like a wigwam

  • teepee

    also used for plant supports in gardening, interchangeable with wigwam in this sense

  • cane frame

    a general term for any structure of sticks used to support plants

用法筆記

Mainly a British gardening term. Gardeners use the word because the shape of the stick frame resembles a traditional wigwam dwelling.