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ABNAKI

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Algonquian language spoken by the Abnaki and Penobscot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Abnaki" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec

Synonyms:

Abenaki; Abnaki

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Abnaki" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (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)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the Abnakis or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Abnaki (a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec)

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