MENOMINEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Menominee mean? 

• MENOMINEE (noun)
  The noun MENOMINEE has 2 senses:

1. a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin

2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini

  Familiarity information: MENOMINEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENOMINEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Menominee; Menomini

Hypernyms ("Menominee" 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 spoken by the Menomini

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Menominee; Menomini

Hypernyms ("Menominee" 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)