Algonquian Definition

ăl-gŏngkwē-ən, -kē-ən
algonkian, algonquian
noun
A family of North American Indian languages spoken or formerly spoken in an area from Labrador to the Carolinas between the Atlantic coast and the Rocky Mountains.
American Heritage
This family of languages.
Webster's New World
A member of a people traditionally speaking an Algonquian language.
American Heritage
A member of a people speaking any of these languages.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating or of a widespread family of over twenty languages spoken by North American Indian peoples, including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Fox, Shawnee, Abenaki, and Delaware.
Webster's New World
Relating to a group of North American languages.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:

Origin of Algonquian

  • From Algonquin +‎ -an.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Algonquin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Algonquian Sentence Examples

  • Illinois is the French form of Iliniwek, the name of a confederacy of Algonquian tribes.

  • But the freedom of trade promoted dangerous relations with the Indians, and an attempt of Kieft to collect a tribute from the Algonquian tribes in the vicinity of Manhattan Island and other indiscretions of this officer provoked Indian hostilities (1641-1645), during which most of the outlying settlements were laid waste.

  • Bones and implements have been found in the Quaternary gravels at Trenton, which have been held by some authorities to prove the presence of Palaeolithic man; but the earliest inhabitants of New Jersey of whom there is any certain record were the Lenni-Lennape or Delaware Indians, a branch of the Algonquian family.

  • Nyack was named from a tribe of Algonquian Indians.

  • Upon the earliest arrival of Europeans the state was inhabited chiefly by the various tribes of the Miami Confederacy, a league of Algonquian Indians formed to oppose the advance of the Iroquois.

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Words Starting With

AALALG

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NANIAN

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Algonquian

Words Starting With A and Ending With N

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