Massachusett

American  

[mas-uh-choo-sit] / ˌmæs əˈtʃu sɪt /

Also Massachuset,

noun

plural

Massachusetts,

plural

Massachusett

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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Etymology

Origin of Massachusett

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

Example Sentences

“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

The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag says Myles Standish Hall should be renamed Wituwamat Memorial Hall after a leading Native American figure massacred with other tribal members by Plymouth Colony settlers in 1623.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021

But, to the west, the Narragansetts—traditional rivals largely untouched by the epidemic—now outnumbered the Wampanoags, and that led to the strengthening of Ousamequin’s alliances with the surviving Massachusett and another nearby group, the Nipmucks.

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

In Massachusett, the name for the New England shore was the Dawnland, the place where the sun rose.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann