Pocahontas

[poh-kuh-hon-tuhs]

noun

1. Rebecca Rolfe, 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.

Pocahontas

/ ˌpɒkəˈhɒntəs /

noun

1. original name Matoaka; married name Rebecca Rolfe. ?1595–1617, American Indian, who allegedly saved the colonist Captain John Smith from being killed

Pocahontas

1. A Native American princess of the seventeenth century who befriended Captain John Smith of Virginia. She is said to have thrown herself upon him to prevent his execution by her father, Powhatan. She later married one of the Virginian settlers and traveled to England with him.

Example Sentences

Team Trump’s dismissive response to Warren came from Trump’s transition spokeswoman, who denigrated the senator as “Pocahontas,” echoing Trump’s schoolyard taunt.

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When the Pocahontas Fuel Company came to Wyoming County in 1916, the Guyandotte River valley was home to small family farms.

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John Rolfe, famed for his role in making tobacco a successful cash crop in Virginia and later marrying the woman known as Pocahontas, recorded that “20 and odd” Africans were brought to the settlement.

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Hummingbirds are so cute too, and these remind me of the one from Disney’s ‘Pocahontas.’

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“But with all his lies, he can’t hide his soul. He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature and shows disrespect — for example by using ‘Pocahontas’ as a slur.”

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