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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
algonkian is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec
the Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for algonkian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.