Meanings
plural Algonquins · alternative Algonkin
- A member of an aboriginal North American people closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, and living mainly in Quebec.
alternative Algonkin
- The language spoken by the Algonquins, a transitional language between Ojibwe and Abenaki.
Odjick is the creator of the animated television series Kagagi, which was broadcast in Algonquin. He also regularly posts an Algonquin "word of the day" on Twitter with translations and illustrations to encourage language learning.
2017 August 4, Waubgeshig Rice, “Ottawa-Gatineau Algonquin speakers encouraged by census data”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2025 - A place name:
- A community in Augusta township, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
- A village in McHenry County and Kane County, Illinois.
- A township in McHenry County, Illinois.
- A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Bohemia Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
nouna 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
nounfamily of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Mi'kmaqalgoomeaking“at the place of spearing fish and eels”
- Canadian Frenchalgonquin
- EnglishAlgonquin
From Canadian French algonquin, from earlier algoumequin, from either Maliseet elakómkwik ("these are our relatives") or Mi'kmaq algoomeaking (“at the place of spearing fish and eels”).
More words from Canadian French, Mi'kmaq
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French algonquin
- algonquinlanguage
German Algonkin
- Algonkinlanguage
Portuguese algonquinos, algonquino
- algonquinospeople
- algonquinolanguage
Russian алгонки́н
- алгонки́н (algonkín)people
Swahili Mwalgonkwini, Kialgonkwini
- Mwalgonkwinipeople
- Kialgonkwinilanguage
Cite this entry
Algonquin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Algonquin
“Algonquin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Algonquin. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Algonquin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Algonquin.
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