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Wenonah

Wenonah proper noun: a female given name, a less common spelling of Winona.

Proper noun

Wenonah

  1. A female given name, a less common spelling of Winona.
    • In the moonlight and the starlight,
      Fair Nokomis bore a daughter.
      And she called her name Wenonah,
      As the first-born of her daughters.1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

Questions about Wenonah

What does Wenonah mean?
Wenonah means a female given name, a less common spelling of Winona.
What part of speech is Wenonah?
Wenonah is a proper noun.

Words near Wenonah in the dictionary

  1. Wennings
  2. Wennington
  3. wennish
  4. wenny
  5. Wenona
  6. Wenonah
  7. Wenquan
  8. Wenro
  9. Wenrohronon
  10. Wenrohronons
  11. Wenros

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