Added 9 October 2026
algonquian
noun
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about algonquian at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- 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.
- Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.