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Canarsees

Canarsees is the plural 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.

Questions about Canarsees

What is Canarsees the plural of?
Canarsees is the plural of Canarsee.

Words near Canarsees in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Canarsees (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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