Massachusett

American  

[mas-uh-choo-sit] / ˌmæs əˈtʃu sɪt /

Also Massachuset,

noun

Massachusetts 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

Inflected Forms

noun

• 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

“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

Native Americans from local tribes, including the Massachusett, Wampanoag, and Nipmuc, were also enslaved after being taken as prisoners of war, the organizations said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2021

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

Puritan leaders were horrified when some members of a rival English settlement began living with the Massachusett Indians.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann