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Definition of Mohegan in English: Mohegan(British Mohican) nounPlural Mohegansməʊˈhiːɡ(ə)nmōˈhēɡən 1A member of an Algonquian people formerly inhabiting part of Connecticut. Compare with Mahican Example sentencesExamples - Queen Ann of England formed Queen Ann's Court and this court ruled in favor of the Mohegans.
- With the advent of war, Plymouth gained support from New England's other colonies and from Mohegans, Pequots, and many Christian Indians.
- Uncas's actions were not dictated by the English, but by what Uncas, in a very calculating and clear-eyed manner, saw as necessary for the Mohegans to remain an independent entity.
- Occom led many Christian Mohegans away from Connecticut in 1785, to join with other Christian southern New England tribal members in exodus to Brotherton, New York.
- Mason, one of the founders of Norwich, and a force of Englishmen and Mohegans, are accused of burning down a Pequot village in 1637 during a war with the tribe.
2mass noun The extinct Algonquian language of the Mohegan.
adjectiveməʊˈhiːɡ(ə)nmōˈhēɡən Relating to the Mohegans or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Signs provide park information and regulations in both English and Mohegan languages.
- The athlete, a member of the Mohegan tribe, will throw the javelin, shot put and discus and run the 100-meter dash.
- Later, during King Philip's War, the colonists battled the Narragansetts with the aid of Mohegan fighters.
- I left the Dartmouth archive saturated with a sense of the tenuousness of Mohegan life in eighteenth-century New England.
- The painted stylized stockade, believed to represent the boundaries of ancestral lands, for instance, is often found on Nipmuc and Mohegan baskets.
Origin From Mohegan, literally 'people of the tidal waters'. Definition of Mohegan in US English: Mohegan(British Mohican) nounmōˈhēɡən 1A member of an Algonquian people formerly inhabiting part of Connecticut. Compare with Mahican Example sentencesExamples - Mason, one of the founders of Norwich, and a force of Englishmen and Mohegans, are accused of burning down a Pequot village in 1637 during a war with the tribe.
- Occom led many Christian Mohegans away from Connecticut in 1785, to join with other Christian southern New England tribal members in exodus to Brotherton, New York.
- Queen Ann of England formed Queen Ann's Court and this court ruled in favor of the Mohegans.
- Uncas's actions were not dictated by the English, but by what Uncas, in a very calculating and clear-eyed manner, saw as necessary for the Mohegans to remain an independent entity.
- With the advent of war, Plymouth gained support from New England's other colonies and from Mohegans, Pequots, and many Christian Indians.
2The Algonquian language of the Mohegan, closely related to Pequot.
adjectivemōˈhēɡən Relating to the Mohegan or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Later, during King Philip's War, the colonists battled the Narragansetts with the aid of Mohegan fighters.
- I left the Dartmouth archive saturated with a sense of the tenuousness of Mohegan life in eighteenth-century New England.
- Signs provide park information and regulations in both English and Mohegan languages.
- The athlete, a member of the Mohegan tribe, will throw the javelin, shot put and discus and run the 100-meter dash.
- The painted stylized stockade, believed to represent the boundaries of ancestral lands, for instance, is often found on Nipmuc and Mohegan baskets.
Origin From Mohegan, literally ‘people of the tidal waters’. |