Mohican

name, noun

name, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of this tribe; a Mohican.
  2. 2
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican wordnet
  3. 3
    A Mohegan.
  4. 4
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic wordnet
  5. 5
    A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end. Australia, UK
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An indigenous people of New England; the Mohicans.

    "The Mohican are an Algonquian-speaking people."

  2. 2
    The Mohegan people.

Synonyms

All synonyms
finfiniroquoismahicanmahicanmahican language

Example

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"There was this feller called Pete who used to live in the next street to mine. He sported a glorious pink and blue mohican. Everyone called him Punky Pete to distinguish him from other Petes."

Etymology

From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”).

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.