Adirondack Definition

noun

A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.

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Abbreviation of Adirondack lean-to.
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pronoun
The Adirondacks (as a region)
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Other Word Forms of Adirondack

Noun

Singular:
adirondack
Plural:
adirondacks

Origin of Adirondack

  • From the Mohawk ratirontaks, atirú:taks, hatiron'taks (“they eat trees”), a term applied by the Mohawks indiscriminately to other tribes, including the French and English, but especially other Native Americans who ate bark and buds when other food sources were scarce.

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  • Back-formation from "Adirondacks". The mountains were named after the tribe.

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Adirondack Sentence Examples

  • The Adirondack area proper, and much of the surrounding ring of more recent rocks, is either too rugged, or has a soil too thin and rocky for extensive agriculture.

  • Graphite is widely distributed in the Adirondack region, but the mining of it is confined for the most part to Essex and Warren counties; in 1908 the output was 1,932,000 lb.

  • I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

  • Of the fur and game animals which were inhabitants of the primeval forests few of the larger species remain except in the Adirondack region.

  • The principal forest area is in the Adirondack region where the state has a forest preserve (in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties) containing (1909) 1, 53 0, 559 acres, and there is as much or more in private preserves and in tracts owned by lumbermen.

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