massachusetts

Noun
  1. A state in New England;
    One of the original 13 colonies (synset 109117607)
    domain member region: concord, lexington, lexington and concord - the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
    is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    has:
    • bean town, beantown, boston, capital of massachusetts, hub of the universe - state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
    • cambridge - a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • concord - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
    • gloucester - a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries
    • lexington - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
    • medford - town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston
    • pittsfield - a town in western Massachusetts
    • springfield - a city and manufacturing center in southwestern Massachusetts on the Connecticut River
    • worcester - an industrial and university city in central Massachusetts to the west of Boston
    • cape ann - a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean
    • cape cod - a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
    • cape cod canal - a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay
    • plymouth - a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
    • salem - a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft trials in 1692
    • williamstown - a town in northwestern Massachusetts
    • berkshire hills, berkshires - a low mountain range in western Massachusetts; a resort area
    • charles, charles river - a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
    • housatonic, housatonic river - a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound
    • merrimack, merrimack river - a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean
    • taconic mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont
    is a part of:
    • america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
    • new england - a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
    same as: bay state, ma, mass., old colony
  2. A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay (synset 109680078)
    is a type of: 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
    same as: massachuset
  3. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (synset 109118198)
    is an instance of: colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
    same as: massachusetts bay colony
  4. The Algonquian language of the Massachuset (synset 106923415)
    is a type of: algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
    same as: massachuset

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