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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeast Massachusetts connected with Cape Cod Bay by the Cape Cod Canal.

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  • noun an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts

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Examples

  • It had nine bedrooms and a wide front porch that offered a perfect view of Buzzards Bay.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • It had nine bedrooms and a wide front porch that offered a perfect view of Buzzards Bay.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Peter Pereira/Standard Times/Associated Press John Mills broke thick ice around his boat in Fairhaven, Mass., in hopes of taking it out to dive for quahogs in Buzzards Bay Friday.

    Photos of the Day: Feb. 11 2011

  • As the coastal storm moved northward off the New Jersey coast, it strengthened rapidly, growing into a gale center that sliced right across the eastern part of Long Island and through Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts.

    Snowstorm blasts New York, buries Boston Andrew Freedman 2011

  • Four decades after a 1969 spill in Buzzards Bay, Mass., scientists compared fiddler crabs in one marsh still tinged by oil to crabs in a nearby marsh that wasn't.

    BP Spill's Next Major Phase: Wrangling Over Toll on Gulf Jeffrey Ball 2011

  • It's been more than 40 years since the Florida barge ran aground in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, and spilled 200,000 gallons of fuel oil.

    Riki Ott: Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm 2010

  • Since early last month, there have been just two bids for the Cleveland Ledge Light Station off Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay.

    U.S. Maura Webber Sadovi 2010

  • Jason Carroll is live at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, where some of the sailors on the hijacked ship were trained.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009 2009

  • MARTIN: Captain Shane Murphy is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay where fighting pirates is part of the training.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009 2009

  • Electronic Fan TamarackTechnologies in Buzzards Bay, Mass., has just released the Airetrak Advantage electronic control system, which replaces a traditional bathroom fan and light wall switch with a single, programmable unit that turns the fan into a whole-house ventilation system.

    Super-Efficient Fridge Among the Innovations at Builders Show 2009

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