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Definition of Algonquian

1. Noun. 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. Adjective. Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language.

3. Noun. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.

Definition of Algonquian

1. a. Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet.

Definition of Algonquian

1. Adjective. Relating to a group of North American languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Algonquian

Algerian monetary unit Algerians Algerie Algerine Algerines Algeripithecus Algeripithecus minutus Algernon Algernon Charles Swinburne Algherese

Algic Algiedi Algiers Algonkian Algonkin Algonquian (current term) Algonquian language Algonquin Algonquins Algren

Alhambra Alhazen Alhazen's problem Ali Ali Baba Alicante Alice Alice B. Toklas Alice B. Toklas brownie Alice B. Toklas brownies

Literary usage of Algonquian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Algonquian COSMOGONY" As compared with the Iroquoian cosmogony, that of the Algonquian tribes is nebulous and confused: their gods are less anthropomorphic, ..."

2. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1904)
"Algonquian Names for Pickerel. By WR Gerard. (American Anthropologist, ns, vol. v, pp. ... Mr. Gerard, iu his brief notes on Algonquian Names for Pickerel, ..."

3. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"[4043] Algonquian 4108. AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: verbal ... Re: Algonquian linguistics; possible Sauk-Fox- Kickapoo inscription on a bracelet. ..."

4. Memoirs of the American Anthropological and Ethnological Societies by American Ethnological Society, American Anthropological Association (1907)
"Algonquian AFFINITY — LINGUISTIC MATERIAL The Algonquian affinity of the Cheyenne language is now clearly recognized. The trader Henry noted its connection ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1905)
"IT seems proper that at this meeting a short account should be given, however elementary, of the important steps forward in the study of the Algonquian ..."

6. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"... Algonquian tribe: identified, 36, 238; etymology of name, 238; location, 241. ... Algonquian ..."

7. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"Algonquian COSMOGONY« As compared with the Iroquoian cosmogony, that of the Algonquian tribes is nebulous and confused: their gods are less anthropomorphic, ..."

8. History Pockets, Colonial America, Grades 4-6 by Marc Tyler Nobleman (2003)
"When you are finished, add a decorative cover for your mini-dictionary. caribou (Algonquian) caucus (Algonquian) pone (Algonquian) powwow (Algonquian) ..."

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