Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting an extensive area in Quebec and Labrador.
  • noun The Algonquian language of the Montagnais and Naskapi.

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  • proper noun An Algonquian language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Eastern Canada.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Canadian French, from French montagne, mountain; see Montagnard.]

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Examples

  • The Canadien were probably a southern branch of the people who were called Montagnais by Champlain.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The Canadien were probably a southern branch of the people who were called Montagnais by Champlain.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain believed that part of the problem of the Montagnais was their extreme vulnerability to famine.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Among the Indians, the Montagnais are the only ones who talk in this fashion.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Among the Indians, the Montagnais are the only ones who talk in this fashion.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • “I studied their customs very particularly,” he wrote.76 He knew that the Montagnais were a hunting and gathering people—and thought that they were the most skillful hunters he had ever met.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • “I studied their customs very particularly,” he wrote.76 He knew that the Montagnais were a hunting and gathering people—and thought that they were the most skillful hunters he had ever met.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Champlain believed that part of the problem of the Montagnais was their extreme vulnerability to famine.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Algonquin tribes, generally known as Montagnais or Mountaineers, living in rude camps covered with bark or brush, eking a precarious existence from the rivers and woods, and at times on the verge of starvation, when they did not hesitate at cannibalism.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Indians as "Montagnais" to the Labrador natives it is doubtful whether you would be understood.

    The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

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