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Penobscot

Pronunciation: /pɛˈnɒbskɒt/
Definition of Penobscot

noun (plural same)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people of the Penobscot River valley in Maine.
  • 2 [mass noun] the extinct Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abnaki.

adjective

  • relating to the Penobscot or their language.

Origin:

the name in Abnaki

Penobscot in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Penobscot in the US English dictionary