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Algonquian definition

Al·gon·quian (-kē ən, -kwē ən)

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

Etymology: < Algonquin: coined (1891) by J. W. Powell

noun

  1. this family of languages
  2. a member of a people speaking any of these languages

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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