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Brooklynite

Brooklynite

1 4.7
A person who lives in or comes from Brooklyn, New York City
  • noun
  • /ˈbrʊklɪnaɪt/
translation icon : brooklynita
  • After moving from Manhattan, he embraced his identity as a Brooklynite with pride.
  • Brooklynite says

Examples

  • "Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is the most extraordinary thing to do in the city," says native Brooklynite and licensed NYC Tour Guide Matt Levy.

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  • Brooklynite bottom half of the 1% who are having some difficulty paying for designer preschools.

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  • All French deserts me when I'm angry, so I reverted to being a mad Brooklynite and demanded to know the policeman's badge number.

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  • That was a good choice: I suspect that she's more representative of the NYT's broad national readership than just about any long-term Brooklynite would be.

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  • Mike Tyson, like Patterson, a Brooklynite trained by Cus D'Amato, wasn't born yet.

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  • I am still stunned by the experience; like any good thirtysomething Brooklynite, I had envisioned the glowing "natural" birth, the whole holistic bill of goods that has been sold to us strong, empowered, modern women.

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  • As a childhood friend, Brooklynite, and loyal Rangers fan assured me over email today: "They're not getting a multi-million dollar, Jigga-led marketing makeover, and now it's going to be easier to go to their games and mock.

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  • As a lifelong Brooklynite, she knows all the best pizza places in the borough.

  • Growing up as a Brooklynite, he developed a love for diverse cultures and communities.

Synonyms

New Yorker
vsBrooklynite
146 2.8

A person born in or living in New York City

is the broader term for someone from the whole city or state

Surface Forms

Brooklynite singular
Brooklynites plural

Morphology

Brooklynite = Brooklyn (transparent) = Brooklyn + ite

Clear derivation: place name + '-ite' yields a demonym meaning 'a person from Brooklyn'.

Etymology

Brooklynite is made from Brooklyn and the ending -ite, which means 'a person from a place', so a Brooklynite is simply someone who lives in or comes from Brooklyn.