Pocahontas Definition
pōkə-hŏntəs
proper name
1595?-1617; North American Indian princess: reputed to have saved Captain John Smith from execution: daughter of Powhatan.
Webster's New World
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Powhatan princess who befriended the English colonists at Jamestown and is said to have saved Capt. John Smith from execution by her people. She married the colonist John Rolfe (1614) and later traveled to England, where she died.
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