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/æɫˈɡɑŋkwɪn/
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NOUN
- 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
- family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
How To Use Algonquin In A Sentence
- That Algonquin word "sachem," so seldom used, so difficult of pronunciation by the Iroquois, was never employed to designate a councilor in council; there they used the title, Roy-a-neh, and to that title had I answered the belt of the Iroquois, in the name of Kayanehenh-Kowa, the Great Peace. The Reckoning
- Unless I see Clooney checking into the Algonquin and manage to sneak a quicky with him behind the large fern next to the checkout desk YOU WILL NEVER KNOW I WAS THERE! What the hell is wrong with you?
- Early on it does seem like they get it, introducing her as she reads an interminably precious essay on the fictitious high-living toddler Eloise, as if to say this privileged sophisticate is about to be schooled in the fact that the history of New York is written not in the ink of The Algonquin Roundtable but in the blood of the innocent; by the second act, however, as Erica is released from the hospital to the sanctity of her condo (where memories of her dead boyfriend center solely on their sex life) the film loses the courage of this conviction and becomes a 9mm REGARDING HENRY (1991), with Erica coltishly adjusting to a new world of pain depicted as a labyrinth of angles so canted I kept expecting Erica to walk into The Penguin's lair. Why ugly things happen to beautiful people
- The station was loaded up with apprentice bingo callers and Algonquin grads who were grateful to have a job.
- After the Algonquin women finished their dance, a sagamore of the Algonquin, who was called Bessouat or Tessouat, rose and said: See how we rejoice in the victory we have won over our enemies. Champlain's Dream
- One historian of the Iroquois observes that by the start of the seventeenth century they were “at odds with all their neighbors—Algonquin and Huron to the north, Mahican on the east, and Susquehannock to the south.” Champlain's Dream
- If The West Wing (also a John Wells-executive produced series like ER) was the fantasy of the workplace as perfect gemeinschaft full of Algonquin roundtable-ready wits and Nobel-level brains, and The Office is Studs Terkel's Working re-imagined as a comedy, ER is the only show that captures the fluid nature of office politics, the way today's annoyingly ambitious intern can become tomorrow's wizened elder statesman. 10.4 Million 'ER' Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Longtime Fan's Notes on a Beloved Show
- In The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Algonquin, $18.95, Bailey explains how she became fascinated with the creature, studying its habits, taking comfort in its routines and poring over gastropod literature for snail-related arcana. 3 books about nature
- Algonquins returning from the land of the Abenaki reported a variole that was very dangerous, and many thousands of Indians died.41 Champlain's Dream
- And that's in Cree, which comes from the Algonquin language.