Adirondack
Americannoun
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a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
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the Adirondacks. Adirondack Mountains.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Adirondack
Probably earlier than 1865–70,
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Down by the lawn, some of the newest occupants at the Santa Monica complex, called the Water Garden, reclined in Adirondack chairs with books in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
Another employee grabs the register, and Massry and I sit on the Adirondack chairs outside the store.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024
Her son, a 33-year-old New York City man, had gone hiking in the Adirondack Mountains that March morning.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Dede Freeman and her daughter lounged in two blue Adirondack chairs on the beach under an umbrella as a copy of Nancy Allen’s “Renegade” blew open in the wind on the boardwalk nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
I can make Adirondack furniture and sell it.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
She’s spent time in the Adirondacks with the wealthy families who vacation in bare-basics cabins on the land they own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
They also reportedly own a historic lodge in the Adirondacks that they purchased from music star Shania Twain and then-husband producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Homer found inspiration in many locations, and “Of Light and Air” follows him from Gloucester to Quebec; from coastal England to Prouts Neck, Maine; from Florida and the Caribbean to the Adirondacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
One of the Zoomers suggested the Adirondacks, but there he would have threatened native wildlife and competed with native raptors.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
The views were sensational, across lazy hills to the Adirondacks half a dozen miles to the west, but it was really hot.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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