lapps Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
    Saame; Lapp; Sami; Saami; Lapplander; Same.
  2. noun the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
    Saame; Lapp; Sami; Same; Saami.

WordNet

Lapps noun plural
Wordforms
singular Lapp
Definitions
  1. (Ethnol.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

Webster 1913