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Appomattox

Appomattox is the alternative form of Appomattoc.

Proper noun

Appomattox

  1. A river in Virginia, United States; in full, the Appomattox River.
  2. A town, the county seat of Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly known as Nebraska and Appomattox Station
  3. A historic village in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States, formerly the county seat, also known as Clover Hill and Appomattox Court House
  4. The 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant's Union army, which occurred at Appomattox Court House at the end of the American Civil War.

Meaning of Appomattoc

Noun

Appomattoc pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A tribe of Virginia Indians who spoke an Algonquian language and resided along the lower Appomattox River.

Origin of Appomattox

The river was named after the Appamatuck tribe of Native Americans (whose name is from Powhatan). The town was named after the county, which in turn was named after the river.

Words formed from Appomattox

Questions about Appomattox

What does Appomattox mean?
Appomattox means a river in Virginia, United States; in full, the Appomattox River.
What is Appomattox the alternative form of?
Appomattox is the alternative form of Appomattoc.
What part of speech is Appomattox?
Appomattox is a proper noun.

Words near Appomattox in the dictionary

  1. Appollis
  2. Appolo
  3. appom
  4. Appomatox
  5. Appomattoc
  6. Appomattox
  7. Appomattox County
  8. appoms
  9. Apponagansett Bay
  10. apport
  11. apported

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Appomattox (page history and authors); Appomattoc (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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