nanticoke
IPA: nˈæntikoʊk
Root Word: Nanticoke
noun
- A member of an indigenous American Algonquian people whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.
- Their Algonquian language.
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Examples of "nanticoke" in Sentences
- The Nanticoke language has since become extinct.
- The Nanticoke claim to descend originally from the Lenape.
- Nanticoke population smaller in size, reaches maturity earlier.
- The Nanticoke suffered after the English incursion into Maryland.
- The canal ran along the river and by 1865 was built to Nanticoke.
- The Nanticoke Creek flows southward from the town to the Susquehanna River.
- He played in the minors through the 1949 season, then returned to Nanticoke.
- The land at the head of the Nanticoke River has long been inhabited by mankind.
- The most prominent tribes in the area were the Leni Lenape and Nanticoke tribes.
- Nanticoke is scheduled to phase out its use of coal and switch to using biomass.