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单词 Wampanoag
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Definition of Wampanoag in English:

Wampanoag

nounPlural Wampanoags ˌwɑːmpəˈnəʊəɡˌwämpəˈnōaɡ
  • A member of a confederacy of North American peoples of south-eastern Massachusetts who spoke the extinct Algonquian language Massachusett.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Wampanoag want official federal recognition.
    • The skulls may have hastened the war by convincing both the English and the Wampanoags that each broke promises neither made.
    • In March, the western Indians began negotiating for peace while the Wampanoags and Narragansetts returned to their homelands in search of food.
    • Although colonists blamed ‘King Philip, ‘principal sachem of the Wampanoags, for starting hostilities, his warriors probably acted independently, not as part of an intertribal conspiracy.’
    • There, Native interpreters in seventeenth-century dress interact with visitors and answer questions about both past and contemporary Wampanoag lifeways.
    • The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware.
    • Massasoit's village at Montaup was attacked, but when the colonists supported the Wampanoag, the Narragansett finally were forced to abandon the effort.
    • King Philip's War, waged between the English and an alliance of Wampanoag, Nipmuk, and Narragansett Indians, devastated Eliot's missions.
    • We came across a gravestone, which had on it the following inscription: ‘Here lies an Indian woman, a Wampanoag, whose family and tribe gave of themselves and their land that this great nation might be born and grow.’
adjective ˌwɑːmpəˈnəʊəɡˌwämpəˈnōaɡ
  • Relating to or denoting the Wampanoag.

    (与)万帕诺亚格人(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At Plimoth, the public walks through an outdoor Wampanoag village staffed by actual men and women.
    • In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors.
    • Officials vetted the text of an oration that Frank B. James, a Wampanoag leader, was slated to deliver at a banquet celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Mayflower's landing.
    • Metacom, Richter points out, willingly assumed an English name, Philip, and he and his Wampanoag followers raised hogs.
    • The following summer, he led a force into the Mount Hope swamp in Rhode Island, where the Wampanoag chieftain, Metacom, dwelled.
    • The Pilgrim Fathers thanked the Wampanoag Indians for their hospitality over a three-day feast in 1621, then proceeded to drive them ruthlessly off their native lands.
    • The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
    • The Wampanoag leader Metacomet, known as ‘King Philip’ to the English, tried to get this practice outlawed, and when the British refused, a war ensued.
    • When most Americans think of Thanksgiving past, they imagine the autumn of 1621 at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts where for 3 days in late September, the Pilgrims shared their harvest with the Wampanoag Indians.

Origin

Narragansett, literally 'easterners'.

Definition of Wampanoag in US English:

Wampanoag

nounˌwämpəˈnōaɡ
  • A member of a confederacy of North American peoples of southeastern Massachusetts who spoke the extinct Algonquian language Massachusett.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although colonists blamed ‘King Philip, ‘principal sachem of the Wampanoags, for starting hostilities, his warriors probably acted independently, not as part of an intertribal conspiracy.’
    • We came across a gravestone, which had on it the following inscription: ‘Here lies an Indian woman, a Wampanoag, whose family and tribe gave of themselves and their land that this great nation might be born and grow.’
    • The Wampanoag want official federal recognition.
    • The skulls may have hastened the war by convincing both the English and the Wampanoags that each broke promises neither made.
    • There, Native interpreters in seventeenth-century dress interact with visitors and answer questions about both past and contemporary Wampanoag lifeways.
    • King Philip's War, waged between the English and an alliance of Wampanoag, Nipmuk, and Narragansett Indians, devastated Eliot's missions.
    • Massasoit's village at Montaup was attacked, but when the colonists supported the Wampanoag, the Narragansett finally were forced to abandon the effort.
    • In March, the western Indians began negotiating for peace while the Wampanoags and Narragansetts returned to their homelands in search of food.
    • The Wampanoag were members of a widespread confederacy of Algonkian-speaking peoples known as the League of the Delaware.
adjectiveˌwämpəˈnōaɡ
  • Relating to or denoting the Wampanoag.

    (与)万帕诺亚格人(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Officials vetted the text of an oration that Frank B. James, a Wampanoag leader, was slated to deliver at a banquet celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Mayflower's landing.
    • The Wampanoag leader Metacomet, known as ‘King Philip’ to the English, tried to get this practice outlawed, and when the British refused, a war ensued.
    • The following summer, he led a force into the Mount Hope swamp in Rhode Island, where the Wampanoag chieftain, Metacom, dwelled.
    • The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
    • Metacom, Richter points out, willingly assumed an English name, Philip, and he and his Wampanoag followers raised hogs.
    • When most Americans think of Thanksgiving past, they imagine the autumn of 1621 at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts where for 3 days in late September, the Pilgrims shared their harvest with the Wampanoag Indians.
    • In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors.
    • The Pilgrim Fathers thanked the Wampanoag Indians for their hospitality over a three-day feast in 1621, then proceeded to drive them ruthlessly off their native lands.
    • At Plimoth, the public walks through an outdoor Wampanoag village staffed by actual men and women.

Origin

Narragansett, literally ‘easterners’.

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