Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting Penobscot Bay and the Penobscot River valley in Maine. The Penobscot, who joined the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-1700s, are represented in the Maine legislature by a nonvoting delegate.
- noun The Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abenaki.
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- proper noun An extinct
Abenaki (Algonquian )language , spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related toWestern Abenaki . - noun One of a
sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeasternUnited States , particularlyMaine .
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- noun a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
- noun a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
Etymologies
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Examples
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The location was a small patch of hardwoods in Penobscot, Maine.
Field & Stream 2010
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Champlain always called the Penobscot the Nurembega.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Champlain always called the Penobscot the Nurembega.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Since then the lumber of the upper Allegash and its lakes has been run down the Penobscot, that is, up the Allegash, which here consists principally of a chain of large and stagnant lakes, whose thoroughfares, or river-links, have been made nearly equally stagnant by damming, and then down the Penobscot.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Connecticut, the Merrimac, the Kennebec, the Penobscot were their noble rivers.
Margaret 1851
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As a result, it has beautiful bays such as Penobscot and Pasamaquoddy; a number of fine harbours, Portland harbour on Casco Bay being one of the best on the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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In including the territory within the limits of the British claim in the census which "Ebenezer Greely"'appears to have been instructed to take of the population of the county of "Penobscot" he has evidently acted in ignorance or under a misconception of the subsisting relations betwixt
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren 1878
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Here is a picture taken from my hotel room balcony (Penobscot river, looking toward Veazie, ME)
U of Maine: Not Warm 2009
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A seascape titled "Seascape" seems redundant; announcing the location of the seascape "Penobscot Bay at Nightfall" seems to comfort people.
Daniel Grant: What's In a (Painting's) Name? Quite a Lot, Actually Daniel Grant 2011
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A seascape titled "Seascape" seems redundant; announcing the location of the seascape "Penobscot Bay at Nightfall" seems to comfort people.
Daniel Grant: What's In a (Painting's) Name? Quite a Lot, Actually Daniel Grant 2011
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