Massachuset

Mas·sa·chu·sett also Mas·sa·chu·set  (ms-chst, -zt)

n. pl. Massachusett or Mas·sa·chu·setts also Massachuset or Mas·sa·chu·sets

1.

a. 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 17th century.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Algonquian language of the Massachusett.

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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Massachuset - the Algonquian language of the Massachuset Massachusetts Algonquian 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 Bay Massachusetts 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