United Statesian Definition
United Statesian
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English
Alternative forms
- United-Statesian, United-statesian
Etymology
Adjective
United Statesian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
- 1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, edition 2, page 76:
- For this blue-book is a sort of school primer, intended to teach the Danes how to pronounce the United-Statesian language, and perhaps we English may have a lesson, too.
- 2005, Greg Scott editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400:
- There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.
- 1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, edition 2, page 76:
Quotations
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Noun
United Statesian (plural United Statesians)
- An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
- 1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:
- To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient ; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.
- 2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175:
- If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.
- 1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Synonyms
Usage notes
A nonce term:
- The problem is there's no parallel term [to Canadian, Mexican] — "United Statesian" doesn't exist.
- (2009, Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability, page 290, note 60)
References
- "United States" in Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition revised, Oxford Dictionaries, 2008.
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