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Al·gon·quin  (l-gngkwn, -kn) also Al·gon·kin (-kn)

n. pl. Algonquin or Algon·quins also Algonkin or Al·gon·kins

1.

a. Any of various Native American peoples inhabiting the Ottawa River valley of Quebec and Ontario.

b. A member of one of these peoples.

2. Any of the varieties of the Ojibwa language spoken by the peoples called Algonquin.

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[Canadian French, from Malecite elakómkwik, they are our relatives.]

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Algonquin [ælˈgɒŋkɪn -kwɪn], Algonkin [ælˈgɒŋkɪn]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -quins, -quin, -kins -kin a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa

n & adj

(Linguistics / Languages) (Social Science / Peoples) a variant of Algonquian

[from Canadian French, earlier written as Algoumequin; perhaps related to Micmac algoomaking at the fish-spearing place]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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 Algonquian American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived 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 Sauk, Sac - 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
	2.	Algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Algonquian language, Algonquian American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians 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 Maleseet, Malecite - 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
Adj.	1.	Algonquin - of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language Algonkian, Algonquian