werowance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland. historical
    — 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 […]

词形变化

werowances plural weroance alternative

词源

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