Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun algonkian

2 senses of algonkian

Sense 1
Algonkian, Algonkin -- (a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin -- (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)

Sense 2
Algonkian, Algonkin -- (the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

Similarity of adj algonkian

1 sense of algonkian

Sense 1
Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin -- (of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language)