
noun, plural Wam·pa·no·ags, (especially collectively) Wam·pa·no·ag.
- a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- the Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.