English Explanatory Dictionary

Mamaroneck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, United States, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661.
  2. A village in Westchester County, New York, located partially in this town and in the town of Rye.

Pronunciation

/məˈmɑɹənɛk/

Word forms

Mamaroneck

Etymology

From an Algonquian name. Nora Thompson Dean suggested Unami mehëmalunèk (“place to dance”); Whritenour suggested the more plausible Munsee maamaalahneek (“striped stream”), from maamaaleew (“to be striped”).

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