Massachusett

[mas-uh-choo-sit]

Mas·sa·chu·sett

[mas-uh-choo-sit]
noun, plural Mas·sa·chu·setts, (especially collectively) Mas·sa·chu·sett for 1.
1.
a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
2.
the extinct Algonquian language of the Massachusett and Wampanoag Indians.
Also, Mas·sa·chu·set, Massachusetts.


Origin:
1610–20, Americanism; the Massachusett name of Great Blue Hill south of Boston, literally, at the big hill
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