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Canarse

Canarse is the alternative form of Canarsee.

Meaning of Canarsee

Noun

Canarsee (plural Canarsees or Canarsee)

  1. (historical) A member of a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

Forms of Canarse

pluralCanarses
pluralCanarse

Questions about Canarse

What is Canarse the alternative form of?
Canarse is the alternative form of Canarsee.

Words near Canarse in the dictionary

  1. canarism
  2. canarisms
  3. canarium
  4. canariums
  5. canaropyranoside
  6. Canarse
  7. Canarsee
  8. Canarsees
  9. Canarses
  10. Canarsie
  11. Canarsies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Canarse (page history and authors); Canarsee (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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