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CONOY

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Overview

CONOY (noun)
  The noun CONOY has 1 sense:

1. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke peopleplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


CONOY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Conoy" 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)


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