Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Algonquian | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Powhatan | Yes | No | No | No |
Algonquian (noun) | Powhatan (noun) |
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family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains | the Algonquian language of the Powhatan |
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 | a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia |
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618) |
Algonquian (adjective) | Powhatan (adjective) |
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of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language |