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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Pocahontas
1595?–1617, American Indian woman, daughter of Powhatan.

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1. (noun) Pocahontas, Matoaka, Rebecca Rolfe
a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)

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1. Pocahontas
the daughter of an Indian chief in Virginia, who favoured the English settlers there, saving the life of Captain Smith the coloniser, and afterwards married John Rolfe, one of the settlers; came to England, and was presented at Court; several Virginian families trace their descent to her.

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