Definitions for Algonquin

Algonquin Al·gon·quin

Spelling: [al-gong-kin, -kwin]
IPA: /ælˈgɒŋ kɪn, -kwɪn/

Algonquin is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in Algonquin (agilnnoqu).

Definitions for Algonquin

noun

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

adjective

  1. Algonquian.

Origin of Algonquin

1615-25; French; earlier Algoumequin, presumably

Examples for Algonquin

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

They are called Saulteaux, and are a subdivision of the great Algonquin family.

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

"They went this way," announced an Algonquin, in his broken French.

The long house was used by the Powhatans and other Algonquin tribes.

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

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.

The Black Hawk war in 1836 was the end of the Algonquin resistance.

M. Galinee was slightly acquainted with the Algonquin language; he could hold some conversation with the captive.

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