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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Relating to the Hopewell tradition, a network of Native American civilisations that engaged in exchange, flourishing during the first half of the first millennium CE. historical, not-comparable

Etymology

From Hopewell + -ian, after Mordecai Hopewell, whose family owned the property where the earthworks are sited.

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