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is a shortened form of a phrase recorded by writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Hub of the Solar System. [1] This has since developed into The Hub of the Universe. [2] [3] The Athens of America is a title given by William Tudor, co-founder of the North American Review, for Boston's great cultural and intellectual influence. Also a nickname of ...
The mechanism can be seen most clearly in names for which both categories of meaning exist. You might read that a name is supposed to mean "the place of portage" or "the pines" when in fact those meanings are not even implied by the morphology of the name. It is entirely possible, however, that those places were used for those purposes.
State flag of Massachusetts Location of Massachusetts on the U.S. map. This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts [1] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
English settlers adopted the term Massachusett for the name for the people, language, and ultimately as the name of their colony which became the American state of Massachusetts. John Smith first published the term Massachusett in 1616. [3] Narragansett people called the tribe Massachêuck. [3]
The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México
This category is for people from the United States state of Massachusetts Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : Massachusetts Also: Countries : United States : States : Massachusetts : People