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单词 Passamaquoddy
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Definition of Passamaquoddy in English:

Passamaquoddy

nounPlural Passamaquoddies ˌpasəməˈkwɒdiˌpasəməˈkwädē
  • 1A member of a North American people inhabiting parts of south-eastern Maine and south-western New Brunswick.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But both the Atlantic Policy Congress and Akagi say the St. Croix Scoodic band of the Passamaquoddy in Canada never ceded its traditional territory throughout 200 years of continuous encroachment by the province and town.
    • He was an ethnologist and he recorded all of these songs and tales of the Passamaquoddy Indians.
    • Representatives of Maine's Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians, who assisted the Maliseets in their negotiations with the state, attended the ceremony.
  • 2mass noun The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, now with few speakers.

adjective ˌpasəməˈkwɒdiˌpasəməˈkwädē
  • Relating to the Passamaquoddy or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The town and the federal government maintain there is no Passamaquoddy band in Canada.
    • The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes send to the Maine legislature a representative who is permitted to speak only on matters connected with the affairs of the Indian reservations.
    • The issue of whether non-status persons of Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy ancestry are entitled to treaty rights affirmed by Marshall must be resolved;
    • Akagi, whose mother was ‘half Native ‘and his father Japanese, said that although there supposedly are no Passamaquoddy people in St. Andrews, the town nonetheless did not charge his family property tax when his mother was alive.’
    • Later, at a senior's hall in nearby Mace's Bay, we discussed CBM efforts in local scallop management and met with Hugh Akagi, Chief of the Passamaquoddy First Nation.

Origin

From a Micmac name for Passamaquoddy Bay, literally 'place where pollack are plentiful'.

Rhymes

body, embody, Irrawaddy, Kirkcaldy, noddy, shoddy, Soddy, squaddie, toddy, wadi
 
 

Definition of Passamaquoddy in US English:

Passamaquoddy

nounˌpasəməˈkwädē
  • 1A member of a North American people inhabiting parts of southeastern Maine and southwestern New Brunswick.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But both the Atlantic Policy Congress and Akagi say the St. Croix Scoodic band of the Passamaquoddy in Canada never ceded its traditional territory throughout 200 years of continuous encroachment by the province and town.
    • He was an ethnologist and he recorded all of these songs and tales of the Passamaquoddy Indians.
    • Representatives of Maine's Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians, who assisted the Maliseets in their negotiations with the state, attended the ceremony.
  • 2The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy.

adjectiveˌpasəməˈkwädē
  • Relating to the Passamaquoddy or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Akagi, whose mother was ‘half Native ‘and his father Japanese, said that although there supposedly are no Passamaquoddy people in St. Andrews, the town nonetheless did not charge his family property tax when his mother was alive.’
    • The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes send to the Maine legislature a representative who is permitted to speak only on matters connected with the affairs of the Indian reservations.
    • The issue of whether non-status persons of Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy ancestry are entitled to treaty rights affirmed by Marshall must be resolved;
    • Later, at a senior's hall in nearby Mace's Bay, we discussed CBM efforts in local scallop management and met with Hugh Akagi, Chief of the Passamaquoddy First Nation.
    • The town and the federal government maintain there is no Passamaquoddy band in Canada.

Origin

From a Micmac name for Passamaquoddy Bay, literally ‘place where pollack are plentiful’.

 
 
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