Associations to the word «Nanticoke»

Wiktionary

NANTICOKE, noun. A member of an indigenous American Algonquian people whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.
NANTICOKE, proper noun. Their Algonquian language.

Dictionary definition

NANTICOKE, noun. A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware.
NANTICOKE, noun. The Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy.

Wise words

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