Algonquin

[ al-gong-kin, -kwin ]

noun

, plural Al·gon·quins, (especially collectively) Al·gon·quin

1. a member of a group of North American Indian tribes formerly along the Ottawa River and the northern tributaries of the St. Lawrence River.
2. their speech, a dialect of Ojibwe, of the Algonquian family of languages.
3. Algonquian.

adjective

1. Algonquian.

Algonquin

/ -kwɪn; ælˈɡɒŋkɪn; ælˈɡɒŋkɪn /

noun

1. -quins-quin-kins-kin a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
2. the language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa

noun

1. See Algonquian
   a variant of Algonquian

Word History and Origins

Origin of Algonquin¹

First recorded in 1615–25; from French; earlier Algoumequin, presumably from an Algonquian language

Word History and Origins

Origin of Algonquin¹

C17: from Canadian French, earlier written as Algoumequin; perhaps related to Micmac algoomaking at the fish-spearing place

Example Sentences

Even after Salinger had decamped to Cornish, he loved to lunch with William Shawn and Lillian Ross at the Algonquin in New York.

From The Daily Beast

Dorothy Parker smoke, drank, and slept around—in short, everything her male colleagues in the Algonquin Round Table were doing.

From The Daily Beast

As one Democratic policy consultant puts it, “They are as ancient as Gertrude Stein in Paris or the Algonquin in New York.”

From The Daily Beast

Her first book, a memoir of her two years working at a boarding school in Jordan, will be published by Algonquin Books in 2011.

From The Daily Beast

I had asked him back on that winter day while we were warming ourselves with tea at the Algonquin if he was in love.

From The Daily Beast

The term Abenakie, is one manifestly imposed by Algonquin tribes living west and south of them.

From Project Gutenberg

It is true that many of the grammatical principles of the Algonquin languages, are also developed in other stocks.

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The term Lenpe, signifies a male, and is identical in sense with the Algonquin word Iba.

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I allude to the institution of the Totem, which has been well known among the Algonquin tribes from the settlement of Canada.

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This ever after made them hate the French as cordially as they did their lifelong enemies, the Algonquin Indians.

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