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Massachusetts is a derived term of massachusettsian.



As a noun Massachusettsian

is a native or resident of Massachusetts.

As a proper noun Massachusetts is

a {{USstate}} Capital: Boston.

massachusettsian

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A native or resident of .
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  • *:That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian .
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  • *:A young Massachusettsian (is this correct orthography?), by name Nathaniel II. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen, who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River, and coolly "walks" to Valparaiso, across pampa and cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles !
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  • *:Chadwick (54), though a Massachusettsian by birth, residence, and position is not so by preordination. He has a directness of thought, a humour, and a power of seeing himself as others see him that smack more of London or Paris than of Boston.
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  • *:Much to the chagrin of many a Massachusettsian , on January 29, 1 842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster dispatched directions to the US ambassador to Great Britain in support of Calhoun's resolutions.
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  • *:The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war.
  • Hypernyms

    *American

    massachusetts

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A (USstate) Capital: Boston.
  • Derived terms

    * MA * Massachusettsan * Massachusettsian * Massachusite

    See also

    * * Bay Stater

    References

    * William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States (2004)