Massachusetts
pronunciation
How to pronounce Massachusetts in British English:
UK [ˌmæsə'tʃu:sɪts]
How to pronounce Massachusetts in American English:
US [ˌmæsə'tʃusɪts]
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- Noun:
- a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
- a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
- one of the British colonies that formed the United States
- the Algonquian language of the Massachuset people
Word Origin
- Massachusetts
- plural, originally (1614) a name for the Algonquian native people who lived around the bay, from Algonquian Massachusett "at the large hill," in reference to Great Blue Hill, southwest of Boston.
Example
- 1. Consider mr brown , the heroic conqueror of massachusetts .
- 2. Forecasters expect the storm to bring hurricane-force winds to portions of the coast from virginia to massachusetts .
- 3. The chicken run started before massachusetts .
- 4. The reform is modelled after the one that he passed in massachusetts .
- 5. Unlike massachusetts , california will marry couples from other states .