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statesider en · NOUN

Etymology

From stateside + -er.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, demonym) A continental (US) American; a United States mainlander.
   • Besides being a young lady of only eight, she is a statesider […] 1948 July 14, Alaska Life: The Territorial Magazine, volume 11, page 7:
   • Perhaps the largest group of outsides is those from the United States, often referred to as statesiders. Statesiders come to Guam as part of the military, as teachers, as business people, lawyers or other professional or technical occupations, and as missionaries. 1985, Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, Language of Inequality, page 17:

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