powhatan

English Thesaurus

1. the Algonquian language of the Powhatan (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin,
definition	:	family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains (noun.communication)

2. a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia (noun.person)

hypernym	:	algonquian, algonquin,
definition	:	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 (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	matoaka, pocahontas, rebecca rolfe,
definition	:	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) (noun.person)

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

instance hypernym	:	algonquian, algonquin,
definition	:	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 (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	indian chief, indian chieftain,
definition	:	the leader of a group of Native Americans (noun.person)