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KICKAPOO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kickapoo mean?
• KICKAPOO (noun)
The noun KICKAPOO has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois
2. the Algonquian language of the Kickapoo
Familiarity information: KICKAPOO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Kickapoo" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Algonquian language of the Kickapoo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kickapoo" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
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