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WAHUNSONACOCK
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• WAHUNSONACOCK (noun)
The noun WAHUNSONACOCK has 1 sense:
1. Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
Familiarity information: WAHUNSONACOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Powhatan; Wahunsonacock
Instance hypernyms:
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)
Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
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