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say it: puh-NAHB-skaht
penobscot is a noun meaning "a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine". It is pronounced /pəˈnɑbskɑt/ — puh-NAHB-skaht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for penobscot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.