Definition of "Abenaki"

Abenaki

/ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/

proper noun
1. An Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.
  Quotations
  The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble.
  2000, Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape, MIT Press, page 57
2. A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).
3. (in particular) The Western Abenaki language.
noun
plural Abenakis or Abenaki
1. A member of this Algonquian First People.
adjective
not comparable
1. Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language.
  Quotations
  I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward.
  2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 37