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Mohegan definition

Mo·he·gan (mō hē′gən)

noun pl. Mohegans -·gans or Mohegan -·gan

a member of a North American Indian people that lived in Connecticut, along the Thames River, and spoke an Algonquian language

Etymology: earlier Monahegan < Massachusett, a local place name

adjective

of the Mohegans or their culture

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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