Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun massachusetts

4 senses of massachusetts

Sense 1
Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA -- (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
       INSTANCE OF=> American state -- (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Sense 2
Massachuset, Massachusetts -- (a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay)
       => 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)

Sense 3
Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony -- (one of the British colonies that formed the United States)
       INSTANCE OF=> Colony -- (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

Sense 4
Massachuset, Massachusetts -- (the Algonquian language of the Massachuset)
       => Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language -- (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)