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Algonquin 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

geographical name village NE Illinois NW of Chicago population 23,276

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Algonquin Al*gon"quin, Algonkin Al*gon"kin, n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.