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Massachusetts

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Noun

1. bay state, ma, massachusetts, old colony

a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

2. massachuset, massachusetts

a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay

3. massachusetts, massachusetts bay colony

one of the British colonies that formed the United States

4. massachuset, massachusetts

the Algonquian language of the Massachuset

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Massachusetts

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noun
a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles)
. Abbreviation: Mass or ()in with zip code MA

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Massachusetts

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New England state of the U.S.: one of the 13 original states; 7,840 sq mi (20,306 sq km); pop. 6,349,000; cap. Boston
abbrev. MA or Mass

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Massachusetts

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A state of the northeast United States. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was the site of the first successful English settlement in New England when the Pilgrims of the Mayflower founded Plymouth in 1620. Governed by the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1629 until 1684, the colony was a leader in the move for independence from Great Britain and the site of the first battles of the Revolutionary War in 1775. Massachusetts ratified the United States Constitution in 1788. Boston is the capital and the largest city.

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