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United Statesian en · ADJ

Etymology

From United States + -ian.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
   • 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. 1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, 2nd edition, page 76:
   • There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says. 2005, Greg Scott, editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400:

Forms

United Statesian en · NOUN

Etymology

From United States + -ian.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
   • 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. 1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:
   • If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American. 2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175:

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Synonyms

US-ian · Usonian · US-American · Usanian · United Statian · American