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MICMAC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Algonquian language of the Micmac
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Micmac" 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 inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Synonyms:
Micmac; Mikmaq
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Micmac" 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)