| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec.[Wordnet]
2. The Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian.[Wordnet] 3. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.[Websters]. | |
Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) | Top | |
Date "Algonkin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
