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Al·gon·qui·an

(ăl-gŏng′kwē-ən, -kē-ən) also Al·gon·ki·an (-kē-ən)

n. pl. Algonquian or Al·gon·qui·ans also Algonkian or Al·gon·ki·ans

1. A family of North American Indian languages spoken or formerly spoken in an area from Labrador to the Carolinas between the Atlantic coast and the Rocky Mountains.

2. A member of a people traditionally speaking an Algonquian language.

[From Algonquin.]

Al·gon′qui·an adj.

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Algonquian

(ælˈɡɒŋkɪən; -kwɪ-) or

Algonkian

npl -ans or -an

1. (Languages) a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum

2. (Peoples) a member of any of the North American Indian peoples that speak one of these languages

adj

3. (Languages) denoting, belonging to, or relating to this linguistic family or its speakers

4. (Peoples) denoting, belonging to, or relating to this linguistic family or its speakers

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Al•gon•qui•an

(ælˈgɒŋ ki ən, -kwi ən)

also Al•gon•ki•an

(-ki ən)

n.

1. a family of American Indian languages spoken by nearly all the peoples of NE North America except the Iroquoians, from Labrador S to North Carolina and W to Saskatchewan and the Mississippi River, and by several Plains Indian peoples, as the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot.

2. a member of an Algonquian-speaking people.

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Noun	1.	Algonquian - 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 Algonquin American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived Abenaki, Abnaki - a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec Algonkian, Algonkin - a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec Arapaho, Arapahoe - a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming) Blackfoot - a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains Cheyenne - a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana) Conoy - a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people Cree - a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada Delaware - a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania Fox - a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River Illinois - a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west Kickapoo - a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois Malecite - a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick Massachuset, Massachusetts - a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay Menominee, Menomini - a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin Miami - a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan Micmac, Mikmaq - a member of the Algonquian people inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada Mahican, Mohican - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic Nanticoke - a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior Ottawa - a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario Pamlico - a member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina Passamaquody - a member of the Algonquian people related to the Malecite and living in northeastern Maine and New Brunswick Penobscot - a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine Potawatomi - a member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin Powhatan - a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia Sauk, Sac - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay Shawnee - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river Wampanoag - a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
	2.	Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Algonquian language, Algonquin American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians Abnaki - the Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and Penobscot Algonkian, Algonkin - the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian Arapaho, Arapahoe - the Algonquian language spoken by the Arapaho Blackfoot - any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot Cheyenne - the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne Cree - the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree Delaware - the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware Fox - the Algonquian language of the Fox Illinois - the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami Kickapoo - the Algonquian language of the Kickapoo Maleseet, Malecite - the Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody Massachuset, Massachusetts - the Algonquian language of the Massachuset Menominee, Menomini - the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini Micmac - the Algonquian language of the Micmac Mahican, Mohican - the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican Nanticoke - the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway - the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa Pamlico - the Algonquian language of the Pamlico Potawatomi - the Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi Powhatan - the Algonquian language of the Powhatan Shawnee - the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee
Adj.	1.	Algonquian - of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language Algonkian, Algonquin

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