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# teepee

«teepee» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cone-shaped tent of poles covered with skins or cloth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (teepees)

### meaning for a pupil

A teepee is a cone-shaped tent of poles covered with skins or cloth, used by some Native American peoples. (Also spelled tepee.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the home of a family or chief in stories of Native American life

### examples

- Iktomi sat alone in his teepee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/#x1)
- The family slept warm inside the teepee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/#x2)
- We drew a teepee in our history book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teepee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.