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WAHUNSONACOCK

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WAHUNSONACOCK (noun)
  The noun WAHUNSONACOCK has 1 sense:

1. Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)play

  Familiarity information: WAHUNSONACOCK used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


WAHUNSONACOCK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Powhatan; Wahunsonacock

Instance hypernyms:

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)

Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)


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