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Mas⋅sa⋅chu⋅sett

  [mas-uh-choo-sit]
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–noun, plural -setts, (especially collectively) -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, lit., at the big hill
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Mas·sa·chu·sett also Mas·sa·chu·set   (mās'ə-chōō'sĭt, -zĭt)   
n.   pl. Massachusett or Mas·sa·chu·setts also Massachuset or Mas·sa·chu·sets

    1. A Native American people formerly located along Massachusetts Bay from Plymouth north to Salem. Reduced by epidemics, the Massachusett ceased to exist as a people during the 17th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Massachusett.


[From the Massachusett name of Great Blue Hill south of Boston.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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