English Explanatory Dictionary

werowance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.

Word forms

werowance werowances weroance

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Powhatan wirowántĕsu (“he is rich”), from wiro (“to be rich”).

Related words

werowansqua weroansqua
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