Noun
- 1. Powhatan, Wahunsonacock
- usage: Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
- 2. Powhatan, Algonquian, Algonquin
- usage: a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
- 3. Powhatan, Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language
- usage: the Algonquian language of the Powhatan
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