Ab·na·ki (äb-nä k ,  b-)n. Variant of Abenaki. |
Abnaki [æbˈnɑːkɪ]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -ki, -kis a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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| Noun | 1. |  Abnaki - a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern QuebecAlgonquian, Algonquin - 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. |  Abnaki - the Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and PenobscotAlgonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains | |
| Adj. | 1. | Abnaki - of or relating to the Abnakis or their language |
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