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KICKAPOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kickapoo mean? 

KICKAPOO (noun)
  The noun KICKAPOO has 2 senses:

1. a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinoisplay

2. the Algonquian language of the Kickapooplay

  Familiarity information: KICKAPOO used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KICKAPOO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Kickapoo" 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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The Algonquian language of the Kickapoo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kickapoo" 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)


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