Algonquin

Algonquin
noun
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
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Algonquian (for: ↑Algonquian)
• Hypernyms: ↑Indian, ↑American Indian, ↑Red Indian
• Hyponyms:
↑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
• Instance Hyponyms: ↑Powhatan, ↑Wahunsonacock
2. family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
• Hyponyms:
adjective
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
• Syn: ↑Algonquian, ↑Algonkian
• Pertains to noun: ↑Algonquian, ↑Algonquian (for: ↑Algonkian), ↑Algonquian (for: ↑Algonquian)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Algonkian (for: ↑Algonkian), ↑Algonquian (for: ↑Algonquian)

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