Mahican

Ma·hi·can

(mə-hē′kən) also Mo·hi·can (mō-, mə-)

n. pl. Mahican or Ma·hi·cans also Mohican or Mo·hi·cans

1. A member of a Native American confederacy of subtribes formerly inhabiting the upper Hudson River valley, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

2. The Algonquian language of the Mahican.

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Mahican

(məˈhiːkən)

n, pl -cans or -can

1. (Peoples) a variant of Mohican

2. (Languages) a variant of Mohican

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Ma•hi•can

(məˈhi kən)

n., pl. -cans, (esp. collectively) -can.

1. a member of an American Indian people who lived in the middle and upper Hudson River valley in the 17th century.

2. the extinct Eastern Algonquian language of the Mahican.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Mahican - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic Mohican Algonquian, 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 Mohican Mohican Algonquian 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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