Home › Words › R › roanokeroanoke/ˈɹoʊənoʊk/roanoke · name — A placename:; A place in the United States; A city in Randolph County, Alabama, United States.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).roanoke is pronounced /ˈɹoʊənoʊk/.EtymologyBorrowed from Powhatan rawrenock (“roanoke”, literally “things rubbed smooth by hand”).nameA 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.nounWhite beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.e.g.“Cuscarawaoke, where is made so much Rawranoke or white beads that occasion as much dissention among the savages, as gold and silver amongst Christians […]” — 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 94:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.wampum 57% match — Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together, formerly used by Native American peoples of eastern North America for various purposes including as jewellery and money, and for record-keeping; (countable, archaic) one such bead. vs roanoke →croatan 55% match — A member of a small Native American group once living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. vs roanoke →rockahominy 53% match — Parched cornmeal. vs roanoke →ioqua 53% match — The shell of Antalis pretiosa, formerly used as money and ornaments (hiaqua) by Native American and Aboriginal people of the western United States and Canada. vs roanoke →arango 53% match — A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade. vs roanoke →beads 51% match — A beaded necklace. vs roanoke →hiaqua 51% match — Beads or shells, especially as placed on strings and valued as ornaments or a sort of currency. vs roanoke →cacoon 49% match — A beanlike seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedei), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry. vs roanoke →