algonquin

Noun algonquin has 2 senses

• algonquin(n = noun.person) 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;
is a kind of american indian, indian, red indian
has particulars: abenaki, abnaki, algonkian, algonkin, arapaho, arapahoe, blackfoot, cheyenne, conoy, cree, delaware, fox, illinois, kickapoo, malecite, massachuset, massachusetts, menominee, menomini, miami, micmac, mikmaq, mahican, mohican, nanticoke, chippewa, ojibwa, ojibway, ottawa, pamlico, passamaquody, penobscot, potawatomi, powhatan, sac, sauk, shawnee, wampanoag, powhatan, wahunsonacock

• algonquin(n = noun.communication) algonquian, algonquian language - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains;
is a kind of american-indian language, american indian, amerind, amerindian language, indian
has particulars: abnaki, algonkian, algonkin, arapaho, arapahoe, blackfoot, cheyenne, cree, delaware, fox, illinois, kickapoo, malecite, maleseet, massachuset, massachusetts, menominee, menomini, micmac, mahican, mohican, nanticoke, chippewa, ojibwa, ojibway, pamlico, potawatomi, powhatan, shawnee
Derived form adjective algonquin₁

Adjective algonquin has 1 sense

• algonquin(a = adj.pert) algonkian, algonquian - of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language;
Derived form noun algonquin₂