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adj
Relating to a group of North American languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
An Algonquin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Algonkian, Algonquin
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noun
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Algonquin, Algonquian language
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Broader terms: Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian
Narrower terms: Abnaki, Algonkian, Algonkin, Arapaho, Arapahoe, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware, Fox, Illinois, Kickapoo, Malecite, Maleseet, Massachuset, Massachusetts, Menomini, Menominee, Micmac, Mohican, Mahican, Nanticoke, Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa, Pamlico, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Shawnee
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Algonquin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Indian, American Indian, Red Indian
Narrower terms: Abnaki, Abenaki, Algonkian, Algonkin, Arapaho, Arapahoe, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Conoy, Cree, Delaware, Fox, Illinois, Kickapoo, Malecite, Massachuset, Massachusetts, Menomini, Menominee, Miami, Micmac, Mikmaq, Mohican, Mahican, Nanticoke, Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa, Ottawa, Pamlico, Passamaquody, Penobscot, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Sauk, Sac, Shawnee, Wampanoag, Wahunsonacock
History
Etymology tree Canadian French algonquinder. English Algonqui(n) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Algonquian From Algonqui(n) + -an.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
