"algonquian" | Definition and Related Words

algonquian

Adjective

Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language (synset 302621859)
same as: algonkian, algonquin

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 (synset 109666446)
is a type of: amerindian, native american - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
subtypes:
- 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
specific instances: powhatan, wahunsonacock - Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)

same as: algonquin
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains (synset 106919747)
is a type of: american indian, american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
subtypes:
- 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
same as: algonquian language, algonquin

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