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POTAWATOMI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Potawatomi mean?
• POTAWATOMI (noun)
The noun POTAWATOMI has 2 senses:
1. a member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin
2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi
Familiarity information: POTAWATOMI used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Potawatomi" 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 spoken by the Potawatomi
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Potawatomi" 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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