Mohegans

Variant of Mohegan

noun pl. Mohegans or Mohegan

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

Origin: earlier Monahegan < Massachusett, a local place name

adjective

of the Mohegans or their culture
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