Mohegan
Americannoun
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a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Mohegan Indians.
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Etymology
Origin of Mohegan
First recorded in 1700–10; self-designation of the Mohegan people; literally, “person (people) of the wolf” in Mohegan-Pequot, an extinct Algonquian language spoken in southeastern Connecticut
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Two local casinos—Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun—mass hired, and Connecticut’s manufacturing powerhouse morphed into a services economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Cross-marketing between Resorts and Mohegan casinos will end at the end of this year, but Resorts plans to launch new marketing programs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
The Grammy-winning artist had been scheduled to perform at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun casino on Dec. 17, but postponed his show because of unspecified health issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
By the time Buffett's "A Salty Piece of Land" tour made it to the Mohegan Sun Arena in 2005, I was no longer an only child.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2023
We spent the night at Father’s friends near Mohegan.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Stanton, the chief’s friend and military ally, acted as an interpreter for the Mohegans and operated a trading post on the river.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
He knows of just one exception to this policy in his lifetime: In 1996, his father gave seed corn back to the Mohegans, after the tribe won federal recognition.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
The Mohegans, who run Mohegan Sun, and Mashantucket Pequots, who operate Foxwoods Resort Casino, won the right to open a casino in East Windsor after gaining federal and state approval.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2019
The survivors were handed over to the Mohegans and Narragansetts, the Pequots’ traditional enemies who fought with the English.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
Miantonomah of the Narragansetts had been handed over by the colonists to the law of the Mohegans, but when the Pokanokets tried a similar law against a traitor, they had been punished.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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