Word.ws English Dictionary

weroance

weroance is the alternative form of werowance.

Meaning of werowance

Noun

werowance (plural werowances)

  1. (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
    • they stirred not from vs, but walked vp and downe, by and amongst vs, the best of them inquiring for our Weroance or king, with whom they would gladly consult to know the occasion of our comming thither […]1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 9

Forms of weroance

pluralweroances

Questions about weroance

What is weroance the alternative form of?
Weroance is the alternative form of werowance.

Words near weroance in the dictionary

  1. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
  2. Wernicks
  3. werning
  4. werns
  5. wero
  6. weroance
  7. weroances
  8. weroansqua
  9. weroansquas
  10. Werombi
  11. Werona

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weroance (page history and authors); werowance (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: “weroance.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/weroance. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.