Penobscot
/pɛˈnɒbskɒt
/noun (plural same)
1A member of an American Indian people of the Penobscot River valley in Maine.The party numbered braves from the Penobscot and Kennebec tribes....
- Did the Penobscot move west and join with other Native Americans, or did they remain their own people?
- The Penobscot made utensils out of wood or bark.
2 [mass noun] The extinct Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abnaki.The Penobscot tribe once spoke Penobscot, a dialect of Abnaki....
- Amanda said that at first she didn't want to learn Penobscot from someone who wasn't of the tribe but "because the language is very slim and few people speak it, I looked past that."
adjective
Relating to the Penobscot or their language.Later, as a captive Indian's servant boy, he experienced life in a Penobscot village during his formative mid-teen adolescence....
- I was raised in Cleveland, and these interlopers don't seem to know or care that the baseball team took its current name in 1915 to honor a popular outfielder, a Penobscot Indian from Maine.
- Representatives of Maine's Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians, who assisted the Maliseets in their negotiations with the state, attended the ceremony.
Origin
The name in Eastern Abnaki.