Massachusett

American  

[mas-uh-choo-sit] / ˌmæs əˈtʃu sɪt /

Also Massachuset,

noun

• Massachusetts,
  plural
• Massachusett
  plural

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.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Massachusett
  plural
• Massachusetts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Massachusett

1610–20, the Massachusett name of Great Blue Hill south of Boston, literally, at the big hill

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Massachusett Massachusetts

“What a great, universal way of teaching language,” she said of the project done in consultation with a member of the Massachusett Tribe and other Native Americans.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

Residents approved her plan and will install about 70 signs featuring the language of the Massachusett Tribe, which English settlers encountered upon their arrival.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

During the preceding years, an epidemic had struck Massachusetts Bay Indians, killing between seventy-five and ninety per cent of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett people.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019

Peter Slavin, president of Massachusett General Hospital in Boston, said that an important aspect of evaluating hospitals on how well they do procedures is determining whether they do too many of them.

From US News ● Oct. 2, 2012

All of these people spoke variants of Massachusett, a member of the Algonkian language family, the biggest in eastern North America at the time.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Avram Samuel Bukhbinder, MD, a graduate of McGovern Medical School who is currently a clinical fellow in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, served as a corresponding author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Raman, 45, an urban planner who graduated from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has promised to bring more transparency to the city’s homelessness-program spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“They are going to need to plant new forests for all of the subpoenas we’ll be printing,” Edward Markey, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, wrote on X on Tuesday about potential hearings for technology executives.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The Massachusetts cities of Somerville and Cambridge several years ago became the first to explicitly allow multi-partner relationships to register with the city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology?” said Emma, sounding impressed.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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