Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun algonkin
2 senses of algonkin
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)