Algonquian (adj.)

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

    [ Syn: algonquian , algonkian , algonquin ]

    Algonquian (n.)

  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 , algonquin ]

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

    [ Syn: algonquian , algonquin , algonquian language ]

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