Chinook
pronunciation
How to pronounce Chinook in British English:
UK [tʃɪˈnuːk]
How to pronounce Chinook in American English:
US [tʃɪˈnuːk]
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- Noun:
- a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
- pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
- large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
Word Origin
- Chinook
- name for a group of related native people in the Columbia River region of Washington and Oregon, from Salishan /činuk/, name of a village site. Name also extended to a type of salmon (1851) and warm spring wind. Chinook jargon was a mishmash of native (Chinook and Nootka), French, and English words; it once was lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest, and it is the earliest attested use of the word (1840).
Example
- 1. Both are eighth graders at chinook .
- 2. Chinook , with 630 seventh and eighth graders , still has students who know those involved in last year 's episode .
- 3. Which means the chinook makes for a bigger target .
- 4. Chinook helicopters dropped several tonnes of water , much of which seemed to miss its target .
- 5. The chinook transport helicopter crashed during an anti-taliban operation in the remote tangi valley , killing 30 u.s. troops , seven afghan commandos and an afghan interpreter .