[Al.gon.qui.an] or Al.gon.quin or Al.gon.ki.an also Al.gon.kin n [CanF Algonquin] (1625) 1 usu Algonquin a: an American Indian people of the Ottawa river valley b: the dialect of Ojibwa spoken by these people
2. usu Algonquian a: a family of American Indian languages spoken by peoples from Labrador to Carolina and westward into the Great Plains b: a member of the peoples speaking Algonquian languages