Agawam

English

Noun

Agawam pl (plural only)

1. An Eastern Algonquian tribe, native to northeastern Massachusetts (around Ipswich).
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 86:

     First cultivated by the Agawam, broadleaf tobacco was soon planted by white settlers as a cash crop after they drove the Natives off the land.

Proper noun

Agawam

1. The language of this tribe.
2. A settlement of this tribe.
3. A city in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.
4. A river in Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts.
5. Former name of Westfield River in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.
6. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
7. An unincorporated community in Montana.
8. A ghost town in Oklahoma.