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Mashpee

Mashpee proper noun: a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Proper noun

Mashpee

  1. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Noun

Mashpee (plural Mashpees or Mashpee)

  1. A member of a Native American people, a subgroup of the Wampanoag people.
    Synonyms:
    Cummaquid, Mattachiest

Synonyms of Mashpee

Forms of Mashpee

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Origin of Mashpee

An anglicization of the Massachusett words mass ("great") + nippe ("water"), synthesized as "great pond".

Questions about Mashpee

What does Mashpee mean?
Mashpee means a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
What part of speech is Mashpee?
Mashpee can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Mashpee in the dictionary

  1. Mashonaland East
  2. Mashonaland West
  3. Mashonalander
  4. Mashonalanders
  5. mashout
  6. Mashpee
  7. Mashpees
  8. Mashpi glass frog
  9. Mashpi glass frogs
  10. mashq
  11. mashqs

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