Massachusetts

[ mas-uh-choo-sits ]

noun

1. a state in the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8,257 square miles (21,385 square kilometers). : Boston. : MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
2. Massachusett.

Massachusetts

/ ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts /

noun

1. a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles) AbbreviationMasswith zip codeMA

Massachusetts

1. State in the northeastern United States; one of the New England states. Bordered by Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital and largest city is Boston .

Notes

One of the thirteen colonies , playing a key role in resisting the British before and during the Revolutionary War .

The settlement of Massachusetts began in 1620, when the first Pilgrims arrived from England in the Mayflower near Plymouth Rock .

Example Sentences

Wahlberg filed his petition for a pardon to the governor of Massachusetts on November 26.

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Then I worked my way through college at a mental hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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The city, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is located about 30 miles north of Boston and is home to 76,000 people.

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Democrats, as Romney should have remembered from his campaigns in Massachusetts, have no such compunctions.

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Historically, the Puritans banned Christmas from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.

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He was afterwards a member of the Massachusetts senate, and much esteemed as a physician and a patriot.

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Governor Endicott, and other influential men in Massachusetts, formed an association against wearing long hair!

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Boundary line between New York and Massachusetts agreed upon.

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"We yield obedience to the act granting duties," declared the Massachusetts Assembly.

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After this "shot heard 'round the world," the Americans were most sympathetic toward their fellow-colonists of Massachusetts.

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