Pow·ha·tan 1 (pou  -t n , pou-htn) Originally Wahunsonacock. 1550?-1618. Algonquian leader who founded the Powhatan confederacy and maintained peaceful relations with English colonists after the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to John Rolfe (1614). |
| Pow·ha·tan 2 (pou-tn, pou-htn) n. pl. Powhatan or Pow·ha·tans 1. a. A confederacy of Native American peoples of eastern Virginia in the 16th and 17th centuries, with present-day descendants in the same area. b. A member of this confederacy. 2. The Algonquian language of the Powhatan, a dialect of Virginia Algonquian. [After Powhatan.] |
Powhatan [ˌpaʊhəˈtæn paʊˈhætən]
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(Biographies / Powhatan (death date: 1618) M, American Indian, POLITICS: tribal leader) American Indian name Wahunsonacock. died 1618, American Indian chief of a confederacy of tribes; father of Pocahontas
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| Noun | 1. |  Powhatan - Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618) |
| 2. | Powhatan - a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia 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 | |
| 3. | Powhatan - the Algonquian language of the Powhatan Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains |
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