Algonquin

[ al-gong-kin, -kwin ]

/ ælˈgɒŋ kɪn, -kwɪn /

noun, plural Al·gon·quins, (especially collectively) Al·gon·quin for 1, 3.

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.

adjective

Algonquian.

Also Algonkin.

Origin of Algonquin

1615–25; < French; earlier Algoumequin, presumably < an Algonquian language

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Examples from the Web for algonquin

Even after Salinger had decamped to Cornish, he loved to lunch with William Shawn and Lillian Ross at the Algonquin in New York.
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Dorothy Parker smoke, drank, and slept around—in short, everything her male colleagues in the Algonquin Round Table were doing.
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As one Democratic policy consultant puts it, “They are as ancient as Gertrude Stein in Paris or the Algonquin in New York.”
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Her first book, a memoir of her two years working at a boarding school in Jordan, will be published by Algonquin Books in 2011.
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I had asked him back on that winter day while we were warming ourselves with tea at the Algonquin if he was in love.
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It is a derivative from the words Algonquin, and Akee, earth, or land.
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M. Galinee was slightly acquainted with the Algonquin language; he could hold some conversation with the captive.
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Algonquin tradition, which I have recently published, denotes that they originally consisted of Eight tribes.
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At least one of those drowned met death in the Algonquin Hotel.
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Perhaps an Algonquin brave would scorn the assistance of a girl.
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British Dictionary definitions for algonquin

Algonquin

Algonkin (ælˈɡɒŋkɪn)

/ (ælˈɡɒŋkɪn, -kwɪn) /

noun

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

noun, adjective

a variant of Algonquian

Word Origin for Algonquin

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

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