Roanoke en · PROPN
Etymology
Borrowed from Powhatan rawrenock (“roanoke”, literally “things rubbed smooth by hand”).
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) 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.
alt of Roanoke Colony
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.
2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) A placename: ▸ Ellipsis of Roanoke County
alt of Roanoke County
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) A placename: ▸ Ellipsis of Roanoke Island
alt of Roanoke Island
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ A village in Woodford County, Illinois, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ A town in Huntington County, Indiana, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ An unincorporated community in Howard County and Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ A city in Denton County, Texas, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ An independent city in Virginia, United States.
- A placename: ▸ A place in the United States ▸ An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
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Roanoker · Roanoke Colony · Roanoke bells · Roanoke County · Roanoke Island