Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nanticoke
2 senses of nanticoke
Sense 1
Nanticoke -- (a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware)
=> 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)
Sense 2
Nanticoke -- (the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy)
=> Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)