massachusettsian
/mæsəˈt͡ʃusɛtsi.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Massachusetts.
Example Sentences
- "That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian."
- "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 !"
- "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."
- "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."
- "The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war."
Etymology
* Massachusetts + -ian
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mæsəˈt͡ʃusɛtsi.ən/