- a Titaness, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and the mother of Athena by Zeus. Zeus swallowed Metis, and Athena was born from his head.
- a person of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the Métis Nation , recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples.
- any person of mixed racial ancestry.
- belonging or relating to the Métis: Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes.
- being of mixed racial ancestry.
- a person of mixed parentage
- Canadian
- the offspring or a descendant of a French Canadian and a North American Indian
- a member or descendant of a group of such people, who established themselves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as a distinct political and cultural force during the nineteenth century
- a person having one eighth Black ancestry; octoroon
