Nanticoke
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Nan·ti·coke
(năn'tĭ-kōk') 
n., pl., Nanticoke, or -cokes.
n., pl., Nanticoke, or -cokes.
- A Native American people formerly inhabiting Delaware and eastern Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic coast.
- A member of this people.
- The Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
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Nanticoke
Nanticoke (năn'tĭkōk), city (1990 pop. 12,267), Luzerne co., NE Pa., on the Susquehanna River; founded 1793, inc. as a city 1926. It is largely residential. Plastic products are manufactured. Nanticoke was formerly the heart of an anthracite-coal mining region, but production has declined.
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Nanticoke
Nanticoke may refer to:
- Nanticoke people in Delaware, United States
- Nanticoke language, an Algonquian language
- Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, a state-recognized tribe in New Jersey
Place names
- United States
- Nanticoke River in Delaware and Maryland
- Nanticoke Hundred, an unincorporated subdivision of Sussex County, Delaware
- Nanticoke, Maryland, an unincorporated community
- Nanticoke, New York, a town
- Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, a city
- Canada
- Nanticoke, Ontario
- Nanticoke Generating Station, the largest coal-fired power plant in North America
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