POWHATAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does Powhatan mean?
• POWHATAN (noun)
The noun POWHATAN has 3 senses:
1. Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
2. a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
3. the Algonquian language of the Powhatan
Familiarity information: POWHATAN used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• POWHATAN (noun)
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)
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Powhatan" is a kind of...):
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)
Instance hyponyms:
Matoaka; Pocahontas; Rebecca Rolfe (a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617))
Meaning:
The Algonquian language of the Powhatan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Powhatan" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
