Word.ws English Dictionary

Weekapaug

Weekapaug proper noun: a census-designated place in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.

Proper noun

Weekapaug

  1. A census-designated place in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.
    • The Narragansitts were a great people heretofore; and the territory of their Sachem extended about thirty or forty miles from Sekunk river and Narragansitt bay, including Rhode Island and other islands in that bay, being their east and north bounds or border, and so running westerly and southerly...1674, Daniel Gookin, “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1792, →OCLC, page 147

Origin of Weekapaug

From Narragansett [Term?].

Questions about Weekapaug

What does Weekapaug mean?
Weekapaug means a census-designated place in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States.
What part of speech is Weekapaug?
Weekapaug is a proper noun.

Words near Weekapaug in the dictionary

  1. week-day
  2. week-days
  3. week-end
  4. week-ends
  5. week-long
  6. Weekapaug
  7. weekdaily
  8. weekday
  9. weekdayish
  10. weekdays
  11. weeke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Weekapaug (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Weekapaug.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/weekapaug. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.