Massachusetts

/ˈmæsəˌtʃusəts/

/mæsəˈtʃusɪts/

Definitions of Massachusetts

1. noun

   a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
   synonyms: Bay State, MA, Old Colony

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   American state

   one of the 50 states of the United States
2. noun

   one of the British colonies that formed the United States
   synonyms: Massachusetts Bay Colony

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   Colony

   one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
3. noun

   a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
   synonyms: Massachuset

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   Algonquian, Algonquin

   a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
4. noun

   the Algonquian language of the Massachuset
   synonyms: Massachuset

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   Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin

   family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains