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Algonquian

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Algonquian

1	n	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
2	n	family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
3	adj	of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Algonquian

n 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

Synonyms:: Algonquin

Examples:: show 7 examples...; hide 7 examples...; Wahunsonacock
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618); Makataimeshekiakiak
Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838); Keokuk
Sauk leader who aided the United States against Black Hawk (1790-1848); Massasoit
Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661); Rebecca Rolfe
a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617); Pontiac
famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769); Tecumseh
a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)

Types:: show 28 types...; hide 28 types...; Abenaki, Abnaki
a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec; 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; allies of the Nanticoke people; 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; Menominee, Menomini
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; Mahican, Mohican
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; Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway
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 of Michigan and Wisconsin; Powhatan
a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia; Sac, Sauk
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

Type of:: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

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

Synonyms:: Algonquian language, Algonquin

Types:: show 21 types...; hide 21 types...; Abnaki
the Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and Penobscot; 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; Menominee, Menomini
the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini; Micmac
the Algonquian language of the Micmac; Mahican, Mohican
the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican; Nanticoke
the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy; Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway
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

Type of:: American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Indian
any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

adj of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

Synonyms:: Algonkian, Algonquin

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