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Definition of Algonquian in English: Algonquian(also Algonkian) adjective alˈɡɒŋkɪənalˈɡɒŋkwɪənalˈɡäNGk(w)ēən 1Denoting or relating to a large family of North American languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains, and including Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Delaware. Many words in English have been adopted from these languages, e.g. moccasin, moose, and toboggan. （与）阿尔冈昆语系（有关）的（北美印第安各语言，旧时在从大西洋沿海到五大湖区和大平原地带的大片地域使用，包括奥吉布瓦语、克里语、布莱克福特语、夏延语和特拉华语；许多英语词汇都是从这些语言中吸收采用而来的，如moccasin，moose和toboggan） Example sentencesExamples - The Blackfoot Indians' Algonquian dialect is related to the languages of several Plains, Eastern Woodlands, and Great Lake region tribes.
- I might even learn a few words of the Algonquian language.
- This botany-based place naming practice also exists in other Algonquian languages and in other American Indian language families.
- Some people have suggested that the phrase derives from the European and Algonquian name for the Delaware Indians, whose men would streak their faces and bodies with red ocher and blood-root.
- The company has announced the purchase of exclusive rights to the entire Algonquian language family, including such well-known tongues as Cheyenne, Cree, and Mohican, in a $1.6 billion dollar deal.
2Denoting or relating to the Algonquin people.
noun alˈɡɒŋkɪənalˈɡɒŋkwɪənalˈɡäNGk(w)ēən 1mass noun The Algonquian family of languages. 阿尔冈昆语系 Example sentencesExamples - Orange came from Arabic ‘naranj’ via Old French ‘or ange’; kiosk came from Turkish; moccasin came from Algonquian and so on.
- In 1643 Eliot began to learn Algonquian.
- We examined the data for Algonquian as well as Siouan language groups.
- This is a locative noun, which is a grammatical category used when creating names for places in Algonquian.
- The word is drawn from ototeman which roughly translates from Algonkian, one of the major languages of this region, as ‘he is my relative’.
2A speaker of any of the Algonquian languages. 阿尔冈昆语使用者 Example sentencesExamples - Historically, there is no obvious comparable social development in the region among the two major cultural groups that would most likely have descended from these Early Late Woodland peoples: the Algonquians and Iroquoians.
- Among Algonquians, bear hunts were often associated with fasting, ritual, and feasting cycles timed to varying points of preparation, activation, and completion of the hunt.
- When the first white explorers arrived in the early seventeenth century, they found the settled, agricultural society of the Iroquois a contrast to the nomadic culture of the neighboring Algonquians.
- The Algonquians destroyed wolves and exchanged black wolf skins as ceremonial gifts, and the English seemed prepared to enter and expand this trade, offering native hunters cloth, corn, and ammunition in return for wolf heads.
- His research helped debunk earlier notions that the Monacans and other Siouan groups were largely nomadic hunters and gatherers who occasionally raided coastal Algonquians.
Definition of Algonquian in US English: Algonquian(also Algonkian) adjectivealˈɡäNGk(w)ēən 1Denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of North American languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains. （与）阿尔冈昆语系（有关）的（北美印第安各语言，旧时在从大西洋沿海到五大湖区和大平原地带的大片地域使用，包括奥吉布瓦语、克里语、布莱克福特语、夏延语和特拉华语；许多英语词汇都是从这些语言中吸收采用而来的，如moccasin，moose和toboggan） Example sentencesExamples - Some people have suggested that the phrase derives from the European and Algonquian name for the Delaware Indians, whose men would streak their faces and bodies with red ocher and blood-root.
- The Blackfoot Indians' Algonquian dialect is related to the languages of several Plains, Eastern Woodlands, and Great Lake region tribes.
- I might even learn a few words of the Algonquian language.
- This botany-based place naming practice also exists in other Algonquian languages and in other American Indian language families.
- The company has announced the purchase of exclusive rights to the entire Algonquian language family, including such well-known tongues as Cheyenne, Cree, and Mohican, in a $1.6 billion dollar deal.
2Denoting or relating to the Algonquin people.
nounalˈɡäNGk(w)ēən 1The Algonquian family of languages. 阿尔冈昆语系 Example sentencesExamples - The word is drawn from ototeman which roughly translates from Algonkian, one of the major languages of this region, as ‘he is my relative’.
- This is a locative noun, which is a grammatical category used when creating names for places in Algonquian.
- In 1643 Eliot began to learn Algonquian.
- Orange came from Arabic ‘naranj’ via Old French ‘or ange’; kiosk came from Turkish; moccasin came from Algonquian and so on.
- We examined the data for Algonquian as well as Siouan language groups.
2A speaker of any of the Algonquian languages. 阿尔冈昆语使用者 Algonquian is one of the largest groups of North American languages, including Abnaki, Mohegan, Pequot, Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Fox, Menomini, and Delaware. Although the Algonquian languages are today spoken from the east coast of North America to the Rockies, the speakers are few and several of the languages are endangered. Many English words have been adopted from these languages, e.g., moccasin, moose, and toboggan Example sentencesExamples - His research helped debunk earlier notions that the Monacans and other Siouan groups were largely nomadic hunters and gatherers who occasionally raided coastal Algonquians.
- When the first white explorers arrived in the early seventeenth century, they found the settled, agricultural society of the Iroquois a contrast to the nomadic culture of the neighboring Algonquians.
- The Algonquians destroyed wolves and exchanged black wolf skins as ceremonial gifts, and the English seemed prepared to enter and expand this trade, offering native hunters cloth, corn, and ammunition in return for wolf heads.
- Among Algonquians, bear hunts were often associated with fasting, ritual, and feasting cycles timed to varying points of preparation, activation, and completion of the hunt.
- Historically, there is no obvious comparable social development in the region among the two major cultural groups that would most likely have descended from these Early Late Woodland peoples: the Algonquians and Iroquoians.
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