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Pocahontas

Pocahontas proper noun: a city, the county seat of Randolph County, Arkansas.

Proper noun

Pocahontas

  1. A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Arkansas.
  2. A village in Bond County, Illinois. Former name: Amity.
  3. A city, the county seat of Pocahontas County, Iowa.
  4. An unincorporated community in Hinds County, Mississippi.
  5. A village in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
  6. A former community in Baker County, Oregon.
  7. An unincorporated community in Hardeman County and McNairy County, Tennessee.
  8. A town in Tazewell County, Virginia.

Noun

Pocahontas (plural Pocahontases)

  1. A Native American woman.

Forms of Pocahontas

pluralPocahontases

Origin of Pocahontas

After Pocahontas, whose name is a borrowing from Powhatan Pokachantesu (literally “she is playful”).

Words formed from Pocahontas

Questions about Pocahontas

What does Pocahontas mean?
Pocahontas means a city, the county seat of Randolph County, Arkansas.
What part of speech is Pocahontas?
Pocahontas can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Pocahontas in the dictionary

  1. poboy
  2. poboys
  3. pobs
  4. POC
  5. POCA
  6. Pocahontas
  7. Pocahontas County
  8. Pocahontases
  9. Pocalpocal
  10. Pocalyko
  11. pocan

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