Algonquin Synonyms

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

Algonquin Sentence Examples

  • The Indians of central Alberta are chiefly plain Crees, a tribe of Algonquin stock.

  • So powerful were these teachings that the tribes of the Algonquin peoples formed the Iroquois confederacy.

  • In southern Alberta are several thousands of Indians on reserves south and west of Calgary, consisting of the Blackfoots of Algonquin stock, Sarcees, Piegans and a few Assiniboins.

  • Among the more prominent buildings are the court-house - the portion first erected being designed after the Parthenon - the Steele high school, St Mary's college, Notre Dame academy, the Memorial Building, the Arcade Building, Reibold Building, the Algonquin Hotel, the post office, the public library (containing about 75,000 volumes), the Young Men's Christian Association building and several churches.

  • The northern Algonquin and Iroquoian tribes practised similar arts, and in the Atlantic states wove robes of animal and bird skins by cutting the latter into long strips, winding these strips on twine of hemp, and weaving them by the same processes employed in their basketry.

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