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

Etymology

Origin of Massachusett

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

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

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

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

Cities from Richmond, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts, are set to see temperatures soar from the upper 90s to near 100 degrees, with daily highs under threat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Jerry Melillo, a Distinguished Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, has spent the past 37 years studying heated plots in the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Labor markets in which workers are scarce work really well for workers and generate productivity gains as well,” said Acemoglu, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who won the 2024 economics Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

“I got the audition last year, about April,” Callan recalled, “just to recur. And I said, ‘This is silly, they’re not going to cast a Los Angeles actor to go recur in Massachusetts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

From there, the family had arranged to visit Williams College in Massachusetts for Garfield's class reunion and to initiate the enrollment of Hal and Jim in fall classes.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow