Definition of Massachusetts in English:
Massachusetts
proper noun
A state in the northeastern US, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean; population 6,497,967 (est. 2008); capital, Boston. Settled by the Pilgrims in 1620, it was a center of resistance to the British before becoming one of the original thirteen states of the Union, ratifying the US Constitution in 1788.
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