Passamaquoddy Definition

păsə-mə-kwŏdē
passamaquoddies
noun
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Maine and New Brunswick along the Bay of Fundy, with present-day populations in eastern Maine. The Passamaquoddy helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-1700s.
American Heritage
The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, dialectally related to Malecite.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Passamaquoddy

Noun

Singular:
Passamaquoddy
Plural:
passamaquoddies

Origin of Passamaquoddy

  • Of Micmac origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Passamaquoddy Sentence Examples

  • All along the coast-line there are capacious and well-protected harbours, Casco, Penobscot, Frenchman's, Machias and Passamaquoddy bays being especially noteworthy.

  • The Indians are remnants of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy tribes, the Passamaquoddies being a little the more numerous.

  • The Penobscots' chief gathering places are on the islands of the Penobscot river north of Old Town; the Passamaquoddies', on the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay and the banks of the Saint Croix river.

  • The fifth article of the Jay treaty of 1794 provided for a commission to decide what the St Croix river actually was, and this commission in 1798 defined the St Croix, saying that its mouth was in Passamaquoddy bay and that the boundary ran up this river and the Cheputnatecook to a marked monument.

  • The city is the port of entry for the customs district of Passamaquoddy; in 1908 its imports were valued at $994,961, and its exports at $1,155,791.

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