Agawam

English

Proper noun

Agawam

1. An Eastern Algonquian tribe, settlement, and language, 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.

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