Adirondack

[ ad-uh-ron-dak ]

noun

, plural Ad·i·ron·dacks, (especially collectively) Ad·i·ron·dack.

1. a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
2. the Adirondacks. Adirondack Mountains.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Adirondack¹

Probably earlier than 1865–70, Americanism

Example Sentences

The bar has craft cocktails, and many guests lounge with them on the Adirondack chairs overlooking the water.

From Washington Post

The water-flanked path crosses the lake, rises just 100 feet in elevation, and affords views of the Adirondack and Green Mountains.

From Outside Online

With a tread pattern that looks like a winter tire, these boots had superb traction trekking to our favorite skating pond, tagging an Adirondack summit, and wrestling a Christmas conifer from the woods.

From Outside Online

Music was piped onto the course, and drinks were available at the vintage beverage cart located nearby, where taking a break to sit in Adirondack chairs was encouraged.

From Washington Post

I would become an ecologist, spending my days researching plants and animals, which fascinated me since the summers I spent as a boy at Lake George and a magical boarding school in the Adirondack mountains.

From Nautilus

Sparkling with 7,500 lights, the two-ton Adirondack was larger than any ever used before.

From The Daily Beast

This was the beginning of the Adirondack road, of which Colonel Davis was the president when he died in '88.

From Project Gutenberg

This service was established in 1909 with lookout stations on the tops of all the high peaks in the Adirondack range.

From Project Gutenberg

In his place an equally interesting figure—the Adirondack guide—navigates single-handed the rivers and lakes of the "North Woods."

From Project Gutenberg

Fig. 218 shows the well-known portage pack basket which is used by the guides in the Adirondack regions.

From Project Gutenberg

The sun, over the Adirondack foot-hills, hung above bands of smouldering cloud.

From Project Gutenberg