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

2 senses of algonquian

Sense 1
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)
       => Indian, American Indian, Red Indian -- (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)

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

Similarity of adj algonquian

1 sense of algonquian

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