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Al·gon·quin
(ăl-gŏng′kwĭn, -kĭn) also Al·gon·kin (-kĭn)n. pl. Algonquin or Algon·quins also Algonkin or Al·gon·kins
1.
a. A member of any of various Native American peoples inhabiting the Ottawa River valley of Quebec and Ontario.
b. Any of the varieties of Ojibwa spoken by the Algonquin.
2.
a. A member of an Algonquian people.
b. An Algonquian language.
[Canadian French, from Maliseet elakómkwik, they are our relatives.]
Al·gon′quin adj.
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Algonquin
(ælˈɡɒŋkɪn; -kwɪn) orAlgonkin
npl -quins, -quin, -kins or -kin
1. (Peoples) a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
2. (Languages) the language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa
n, adj
3. (Languages) a variant of Algonquian
4. (Peoples) a variant of Algonquian
[C17: from Canadian French, earlier written as Algoumequin; perhaps related to Micmac algoomaking at the fish-spearing place]
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Al•gon•quin
(ælˈgɒŋ kɪn, -kwɪn)n., pl. -quins, (esp. collectively) -quin.
1. a member of an American Indian people of the Ottawa River drainage and adjacent regions of Ontario.
2. the speech of the Algonquins, a dialect of Ojibwa.
3. (esp. formerly)
a. Algonquian.
b. any speaker of an Algonquian language of the eastern U.S. or Canada.
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| Noun | 1. | Algonquin - 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 American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived 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 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 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. | Algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains 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 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 Massachuset, Massachusetts - the Algonquian language of the Massachuset Micmac - the Algonquian language of the Micmac Nanticoke - the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy 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. | Algonquin - of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language |
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