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Roanoke

//ˈɹoʊənoʊk// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; Ellipsis of Roanoke Colony: a failed late 16th century English former colony on what is now the coast of North Carolina in the United States. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter."

  2. 2
    A placename:; Ellipsis of Roanoke County abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  3. 3
    A placename:; Ellipsis of Roanoke Island abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  4. 4
    A placename:; A place in the United States; A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
  5. 5
    A placename:; A place in the United States; A village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
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  1. 6
    A placename:; A place in the United States; A town in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
  2. 7
    A placename:; A place in the United States; An unincorporated community in Howard County and Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
  3. 8
    A placename:; A place in the United States; A city in Denton County, Texas, United States.
  4. 9
    A placename:; A place in the United States; An independent city in Virginia, United States.
  5. 10
    A placename:; A place in the United States; An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    White beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia. US, historical, uncountable

    "Cuscarawaoke, where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the savages, as gold and silver amongst Christians […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Powhatan rawrenock (“things rubbed smooth by hand”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Powhatan rawrenock (“roanoke”, literally “things rubbed smooth by hand”).

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