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John Smith

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Noun

1. captain john smith, john smith, smith

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


John Smith

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English colonist, explorer, and writer who helped establish the colony at Jamestown (1607). His maps and accounts of his explorations in Virginia and New England were invaluable to later explorers and colonists.

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