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WAMPANOAG

• WAMPANOAG (noun)
The noun WAMPANOAG has 1 sense:

1. a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims

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

• WAMPANOAG (noun)

Sense 1

Wampanoag ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Wampanoag" 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:

Massasoit (Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661))

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