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Algonquian definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language [syn: Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin] n
1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast [syn: Algonquian, Algonquin]
2: family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains [syn: Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language]

Merriam Webster's

or Algonquin or Algonkian; also Algonkin noun Etymology: Canadian French Algoumequin, Algonquin, perhaps from Malecite-Passamaquoddy (Algonquian language of Maine and New Brunswick) elakómkwik they are our relatives Date: 1625 1. (usually Algonquin) a. an American Indian people of the Ottawa River valley b. the dialect of Ojibwa spoken by these people 2. (usually Algonquian) a. a family of American Indian languages spoken by peoples from Labrador to Carolina and westward into the Great Plains b. a member of the peoples speaking Algonquian languages

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. (also Algonkian) --adj. of or relating to a large group of N. American Indian tribes. --n. 1 a member of any of these tribes. 2 any of the languages or dialects used by them. Etymology: Algonquin people + -IAN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Algonquian Al*gon"qui*an, a. Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n. An Algonquian Indian.