Ma·hi·can (m -h  kn) also Mo·hi·can (m -, m-)n. pl. Mahican or Ma·hi·cans also Mohican or Mo·hi·cans 1. a. A Native American confederacy of subtribes formerly inhabiting the upper Hudson River valley from Albany south to the Catskill Mountains and north to Lake Champlain. Present-day descendants live in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. b. A member of this confederacy. 2. The Algonquian language of the Mahican. |
Mahican [məˈhiːkən]
n pl -cans, -can
(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) a variant of Mohican
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| Noun | 1. |  Mahican - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the HousatonicAlgonquian, 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. |  Mahican - the Algonquian language spoken by the MohicanAlgonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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