Algonquian Synonyms

ăl-gŏngkwē-ən, -kē-ən
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. algonquin
  2. Algonquian language
Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. algonkian
  2. algonquin

Algonquian Sentence Examples

  • Illinois is the French form of Iliniwek, the name of a confederacy of Algonquian tribes.

  • But the freedom of trade promoted dangerous relations with the Indians, and an attempt of Kieft to collect a tribute from the Algonquian tribes in the vicinity of Manhattan Island and other indiscretions of this officer provoked Indian hostilities (1641-1645), during which most of the outlying settlements were laid waste.

  • Bones and implements have been found in the Quaternary gravels at Trenton, which have been held by some authorities to prove the presence of Palaeolithic man; but the earliest inhabitants of New Jersey of whom there is any certain record were the Lenni-Lennape or Delaware Indians, a branch of the Algonquian family.

  • Nyack was named from a tribe of Algonquian Indians.

  • Upon the earliest arrival of Europeans the state was inhabited chiefly by the various tribes of the Miami Confederacy, a league of Algonquian Indians formed to oppose the advance of the Iroquois.

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