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Yemassee

Yemassee is the alternative form of Yamasee.

Meaning of Yamasee

Noun

Yamasee (plural Yamasees or Yamasee)

  1. (historical) A member of a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.

Proper noun

Yemassee

  1. A town in Hampton County and Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.
    • A devastating collision on I-95 Tuesday afternoon prompted an overnight shutdown of the interstate’s southbound lanes near Yemassee. Two people were confirmed dead, according to Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey.2025 July 23, Evan McKenna, “2 dead in large-scale I-95 crash near Yemassee; southbound lanes shuttered overnight”, in Yahoo! News

Forms of Yemassee

pluralYemassees
pluralYemassee

Questions about Yemassee

What does Yemassee mean?
Yemassee means a town in Hampton County and Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.
What is Yemassee the alternative form of?
Yemassee is the alternative form of Yamasee.
What part of speech is Yemassee?
Yemassee is a proper noun.

Words near Yemassee in the dictionary

  1. Yelvingtons
  2. yem
  3. yeman
  4. Yemasee
  5. Yemasees
  6. Yemassee
  7. Yemassees
  8. yeme
  9. yemen
  10. Yemen Arab Republic
  11. Yemeni

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yemassee (page history and authors); Yamasee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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