Narragansett

[ nar-uh-gan-sit ]

noun

, plural Nar·ra·gan·setts, (especially collectively) Nar·ra·gan·sett.

1. a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
2. an Algonquian language, the language of the Narragansett Indians.
3. a town in S Rhode Island: includes a resort Narragansett Pier.

Narragansett

/ ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt /

noun

1. -sett-setts a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Rhode Island
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

Example Sentences

And “Visiting”—about a father-son road trip to Narragansett, R.I.—is a prickly minuet of paternal longing.

From The Daily Beast

The term adjacent islands would have included Acquidneck and the other islands of Narragansett Bay.

From Project Gutenberg

Scarcely had the war ceased when Connecticut as we have already seen renewed her claim to Narragansett.

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Full power of protection was conferred upon a court of justices to be held in Narragansett.

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Connecticut could not renounce her last hope of securing a part of Narragansett Bay.

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The money was to be raised by the sale of ten thousand acres of lands in Narragansett at the rate of a shilling an acre.

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