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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Wam•pa•no•ag (wäm′pə nō′ag),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ags, (esp. collectively) -ag. - Anthropology, Language Varietiesa member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- Language Varietiesthe Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.
- Narragansett, equivalent. to Proto-Algonquian *wa·pan(w)- dawn + -o·w- person of + *-aki plural suffix, i.e., easterners
- 1670–80, American.
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