noun
Croatoan
noun
1
An older spelling referring to a member of the Croatan people, a Native American group of the eastern coast of North America.
"Historians still debate what the carved word "Croatoan" meant to the vanished colonists of Roanoke."
How to Use Croatoan
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old form of "Croatan," best known today as the single word carved into a post at the lost Roanoke colony.
Memory tip
You will mostly meet this word in the context of the Roanoke mystery rather than as everyday vocabulary.
Word Forms
Croatoans plural, Croatoan plural
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