Algonquin
//ælˈɡɑːŋk(w)ɪn// name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of an aboriginal North American people closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, and living mainly in Quebec.
- 2 family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains wordnet
- 3 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 wordnet
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The language spoken by the Algonquins, a transitional language between Ojibwe and Abenaki.
- 2 A place name:; A community in Augusta township, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
- 3 A place name:; A place in the United States:; A village in McHenry County and Kane County, Illinois.
- 4 A place name:; A place in the United States:; A township in McHenry County, Illinois.
- 5 A place name:; A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
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- 6 A place name:; A place in the United States:; A census-designated place in Dorchester County, Maryland.
- 7 A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Bohemia Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan.
Example
More examples"This city is located on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe nation."
Etymology
From Canadian French algonquin, from earlier algoumequin, from either Maliseet elakómkwik ("these are our relatives") or Mi'kmaq algoomeaking (“at the place of spearing fish and eels”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.