Definitions for powhatan



Overview of noun powhatan

The noun powhatan has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Powhatan, Wahunsonacock

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

2. Powhatan

(a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia)

3. Powhatan

(the Algonquian language of the Powhatan)

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