colville
colville Lexical Profile
• noun
American A city located in northeastern Washington state, United States, situated near the Colville River and serving as the county seat of Stevens County.
"During our road trip through the Inland Northwest, we stopped in Colville to refuel and explore the historic downtown."
American A member of a Native American people indigenous to the Columbia River plateau in the Pacific Northwest, now primarily residing on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state.
"The museum features an extensive collection of traditional cedar root baskets woven by the Colville."
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from a Norman baronial surname tracing back to places in Normandy (meaning 'Koli's settlement'). The prominent geographical and tribal names in the Pacific Northwest of North America derive from Andrew Colvile, a 19th-century governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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