BLACKFOOT (blackfeet)
Dictionary entry overview: What does Blackfoot mean?
• BLACKFOOT (noun)
The noun BLACKFOOT has 2 senses:
1. a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
2. any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot
Familiarity information: BLACKFOOT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLACKFOOT (noun)
Meaning:
A member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Blackfoot" 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)
Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)
Meaning:
Any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Blackfoot" 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)
