Algonquin
- a member of a group of North American Indian tribes formerly along the Ottawa River and the northern tributaries of the St. Lawrence.
- their speech, a dialect of Ojibwa, of the Algonquian family of languages.
- Algonquian.
Origin of Algonquin
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Contemporary Examples
Even after Salinger had decamped to Cornish, he loved to lunch with William Shawn and Lillian Ross at the Algonquin in New York.
Dorothy Parker smoke, drank, and slept around—in short, everything her male colleagues in the Algonquin Round Table were doing.
As one Democratic policy consultant puts it, “They are as ancient as Gertrude Stein in Paris or the Algonquin in New York.”
Her first book, a memoir of her two years working at a boarding school in Jordan, will be published by Algonquin Books in 2011.
I had asked him back on that winter day while we were warming ourselves with tea at the Algonquin if he was in love.
Historical Examples
M. Galinee was slightly acquainted with the Algonquin language; he could hold some conversation with the captive.
The long house was used by the Powhatans and other Algonquin tribes.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)John Fiske.
The Black Hawk war in 1836 was the end of the Algonquin resistance.
The Indian TodayCharles A. Eastman
They are called Saulteaux, and are a subdivision of the great Algonquin family.
On the Indian TrailEgerton Ryerson Young
"They went this way," announced an Algonquin, in his broken French.
A Little Girl in Old QuebecAmanda Millie Douglas
Algonquin
Algonkin (ælˈɡɒŋkɪn)
- plural -quins, -quin, -kins or -kin a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- the language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa
- a variant of Algonquian
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for algonquin
Algonquin
one of an Indian people living near the Ottawa River in Canada, 1620s, from French Algonquin, perhaps a contraction of Algoumequin, from Micmac algoomeaking "at the place of spearing fish and eels." But Bright suggests Maliseet (Algonquian) elægomogwik "they are our relatives or allies."
Algonquian (1885) was the name taken by ethnologists to describe a large group of North American Indian peoples, including this tribe. Algonquin Hotel (59 W. 44th St., Manhattan) opened 1902 and named by manager Frank Case for the tribe that had lived in that area. A circle of journalists, authors, critics, and wits began meeting there daily in 1919 and continued through the twenties; they called themselves "The Vicious Circle," but to others they became "The Round Table."