Associations to the word «Algonquin»

Wiktionary

ALGONQUIN, noun. A member of an aboriginal North American people closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, and living mainly in Quebec.
ALGONQUIN, proper noun. The language spoken by the Algonquins, a transitional language between Ojibwe and Abenaki.

Dictionary definition

ALGONQUIN, 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.
ALGONQUIN, noun. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.
ALGONQUIN, adjective. Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language.

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