ALGONQUIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Algonquian mean? 

• ALGONQUIAN (noun)
  The noun ALGONQUIAN has 2 senses:

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

2. family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

  Familiarity information: ALGONQUIAN used as a noun is rare.

• ALGONQUIAN (adjective)
  The adjective ALGONQUIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

  Familiarity information: ALGONQUIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALGONQUIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Algonquian; Algonquin

Hypernyms ("Algonquian" is a kind of...):

Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Algonquian"):

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)

Cheyenne (a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana))

Powhatan (a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia)

Sac; Sauk (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)

Miami (a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan)

Menominee; Menomini (a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin)

Massachuset; Massachusetts (a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay)

Malecite (a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick)

Kickapoo (a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois)

Illinois (a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west)

Fox (a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River)

Delaware (a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania)

Cree (a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada)

Conoy (a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people)

Blackfoot (a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains)

Arapaho; Arapahoe (a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming))

Algonkian; Algonkin (a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec)

Abenaki; Abnaki (a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec)

Instance hyponyms:

Powhatan; Wahunsonacock (Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618))

Derivation:

Algonquian (of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin

Hypernyms ("Algonquian" is a kind of...):

American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Algonquian"):

Algonkian; Algonkin (the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian)

Abnaki (the Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and Penobscot)

Shawnee (the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee)

Powhatan (the Algonquian language of the Powhatan)

Potawatomi (the Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi)

Pamlico (the Algonquian language of the Pamlico)

Chippewa; Ojibwa; Ojibway (the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa)

Nanticoke (the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy)

Mahican; Mohican (the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican)

Micmac (the Algonquian language of the Micmac)

Menominee; Menomini (the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini)

Malecite; Maleseet (the Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody)

Massachuset; Massachusetts (the Algonquian language of the Massachuset)

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)

• ALGONQUIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Algonkian; Algonquian; Algonquin

Pertainym:

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)

Derivation:

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)