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BLACKFOOT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: blackfeet   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Blackfoot" 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 a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Blackfoot" 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)

Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)

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