Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun powhatan

3 senses of powhatan

Sense 1
Powhatan, Wahunsonacock -- (Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618))
       INSTANCE OF=> Indian chief, Indian chieftain -- (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
       INSTANCE 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)

Sense 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)

Sense 3
Powhatan -- (the Algonquian language of the Powhatan)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)