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nounfamily of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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nouna 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
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adjectiveof or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
Definition that contains algonquian
- fox the Algonquian language of the Fox
- fox a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
- miami a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan
- massachusetts a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
- massachusetts the Algonquian language of the Massachuset
- illinois a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
- illinois the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami
- sac a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
- eskimo a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
- cheyenne the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne