Massachuset

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Mas·sa·chu·sett

also Mas·sa·chu·set M0137200 (măs′ə-cho͞o′sĭt, -zĭt)n. pl. Massachusett or Mas·sa·chu·setts also Massachuset or Mas·sa·chu·sets 1. A member of a Native American people formerly located along Massachusetts Bay from Plymouth north to Salem. Reduced by epidemics, the Massachusett ceased to exist as a people during the 1600s.2. The Algonquian language of the Massachusett.

[From the Massachusett name of Great Blue Hill south of Boston.]

Massachuset

(ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪt) or

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npl -sets, -set or -setts1. (Peoples) a member of a North American Indian people formerly living around Massachusetts Bay2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family[probably from Algonquian, literally: at the big hill]

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Noun	1.	Massachuset - the Algonquian language of the MassachusetMassachusettsAlgonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
	2.	Massachuset - a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts BayMassachusettsAlgonquian, 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

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(măsəcho͞o`sĭt), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). In the early 17th cent. they occupied the territory around Massachusetts Bay and ranged northward. They then numbered some 3,000, but by 1631, after wars and pestilence, they were reduced to some 500. Soon thereafter they adopted Christianity and moved, with other converts, into the villages of the praying Indianspraying Indians,
name for Native North Americans who accepted Christianity. Although many different groups are called by this name, e.g., the Roman Catholic Iroquois of St.
..... Click the link for more information. . Here they ceased to have a separate tribal existence. The Massachuset owned and occupied the site of Boston.

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noun the Algonquian language of the Massachuset

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noun a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay

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