English Explanatory Dictionary

Mashpee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town in Massachusetts.
noun
  1. A member of a Native American people, a subgroup of the Wampanoag people.

Word forms

Mashpee Mashpees

Etymology

An anglicization of the Massachusett words mass ("great") + nippe ("water"), synthesized as "great pond".

Synonyms

Cummaquid Mattachiest
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