Algonquian can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.
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| Algonquian - of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language | ||
Noun |
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| Algonquian - 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 | ||
| Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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| 1. | adj. | Although Mary is a scholar of aboriginal linguistics, even she was surprised to learn that "caucus" derives from an Algonquian word meaning "tribal elders." |
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| Although Mary is a scholar of aboriginal linguistics, even she was surprised to learn that "caucus" derives from an Algonquian word meaning "tribal elders." | |