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Massachusetts

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Massachusetts

1
 n
a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
2
 n
a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Massachusetts
1

n a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

Synonyms:
Bay State, MA, Old Colony
Example of:
American state
one of the 50 states of the United States

n one of the British colonies that formed the United States

Synonyms:
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Example of:
Colony
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
2

n a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay

Synonyms:
Massachuset
Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

n the Algonquian language of the Massachuset

Synonyms:
Massachuset
Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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