English > Algonquian: 3 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally / 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. |
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| Synonym | Algonquin |
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| Instances | Powhatan, Wahunsonacock | Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia |
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| Narrower | Abnaki, Abenaki | A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec |
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| Algonkian, Algonkin | A member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec |
| Arapaho, Arapahoe | A member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming) |
| Blackfoot | A member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains |
| Cheyenne | A member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana) |
| Conoy | A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river |
| Cree | A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada |
| Delaware | A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania |
| Fox | A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River |
| Illinois | A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west |
| Kickapoo | A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois |
| Malecite | A member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick |
| Massachuset, Massachusetts | A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay |
| Menomini, Menominee | A member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin |
| Miami | A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan |
| Micmac, Mikmaq | A member of the Algonquian people inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada |
| Mohican, Mahican | 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 |
| Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa | 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 / originally of Michigan and Wisconsin |
| Powhatan | A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia |
| Sauk, Sac | 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 |
| Broader | Amerindian, Native American | Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived |
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| Spanish | algonquino |
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| Catalan | algonquí |
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| Adjectives | Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin | of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language |
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English > Algonquian: 3 senses > noun 2, communication| Meaning | family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains. |
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| Synonyms | Algonquin, Algonquian language |
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| Narrower | Abnaki | The Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and Penobscot |
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| Algonkian, Algonkin | The Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian |
| 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 |
| Malecite, Maleseet | The Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody |
| Massachuset, Massachusetts | The Algonquian language of the Massachuset |
| Menomini, Menominee | The Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini |
| Micmac | The Algonquian language of the Micmac |
| Mohican, Mahican | The Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican |
| Nanticoke | The Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy |
| Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa | The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa |
| Pamlico | The Algonquian language of the Pamlico |
| Potawatomi | The Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi |
| Powhatan | The Algonquian language of the Powhatan |
| Shawnee | The Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee |
| Broader | Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian | A member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived |
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| Spanish | algonquino, lengua álgica, lengua algonquina |
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| Catalan | llengua àlgica |
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