Algonquian

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Algonquian \Al*gon"qui*an\, 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. -- n. An Algonquian
     Indian.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Algonquin

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Algonquian
       adj : of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or
             language [syn: {Algonkian}, {Algonquin}]
       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: {Algonquin}]
       2: family of North American Indian languages spoken from
          Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
          [syn: {Algonquin}, {Algonquian language}]