Massachusetts

[mas-uh-choo-sits]

noun

1. a state in the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8,257 square miles (21,385 square kilometers). Boston. MA (for use with zip code), Mass.

2. Massachusett.

Massachusetts

/ ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts /

noun

1. Abbreviation: Mass.  MA. a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles)

Massachusetts

1. State in the northeastern United States; one of the New England states. Bordered by Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital and largest city is Boston.

One of the thirteen colonies, playing a key role in resisting the British before and during the Revolutionary War.

The settlement of Massachusetts began in 1620, when the first Pilgrims arrived from England in the Mayflower near Plymouth Rock.

Example Sentences

While still taking core classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wrote a paper on artificial intelligence’s workplace impact so rapidly influential it was cited in Congress.

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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

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Lapowski had emigrated in 1869 and built a successful business, earning enough to send his son to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts, a feeder school for Harvard.

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He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

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Su has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a deep understanding of the physics behind her company’s products.

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