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Mohegan

[ moh-hee-guhn ]

noun

, plural Mo·he·gans, (especially collectively) Mo·he·gan
  1. a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War.
  2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Mohegan Indians.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mohegan1

First recorded in 1700–10; self-designation of the Mohegan people; literally, “person (people) of the wolf” in Mohegan-Pequot, an extinct Algonquian language spoken in southeastern Connecticut

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Example Sentences

She flew away to the UK to study Shakespeare and later flew to far-flung places to share her native experience and the Mohegan culture.

She preferred her daughter remain in Mohegan territory, or close to it.

The first interview of Hudson with the Mohegan tribes, took place at the mouth of the river which now bears his name.

Thus the argument derived from the Mohegan instance of the Turtle phratry is invalidated by the opposite and more numerous facts.

This is the Mohegan name of the pretty lake in the Berkshires now called Pontoosuc.

Conanchet was conveyed to Stonington, and, after a sort of trial, was condemned to be shot by the Mohegan and Pequod sachems.

There is Mohegan, to be sure, he may have some right, being a native; but it's little the poor fellow can do now with his rifle.

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