or Mic·mac
noun
pl. Mi'kmaq, or Mi'k·maqs or Micmac or Mic·macs- A member of a Native American people inhabiting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Maine, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec.
- The Algonquian language of the Micmac.
Mi'kmaq
Mi'k·maqTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
- An Aboriginal people residing in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Quebec, and in the U.S. cities of Boston and New York City.
- The polysynthetic Eastern Algonquian language spoken by this people, closely related to Maliseet and Passamaquoddy.
Adjective
(comparative more Mi'kmaq, superlative most Mi'kmaq)
- Of or pertaining to the Mi'kmaq people, language, or culture.
Origin
From Mi'kmaq MÃkmaq.
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