Californian
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- noun
- /ˌkælɪˈfɔrnjən/
- "Brothers and sisters and fellow Californians, "join with me in supporting Miles Hawthorne for governor.
- a native Californian
- a Southern Californian
- Texans and Californians
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Watch on YouTubeThe recent tech and AI boom has been good for California, but not for Californians.
- The recent tech and AI boom has been good for California, but not for Californians.
- Doesn't it make sense to invest in Californians rather than waste money overspending in our jails?
- I love the Russian people, And of course I love my fellow Americans, Californians and Midwesterners, New Yorkers and Texans.
- And Newsom celebrated his non removal in a speech to supporters where he laid out what this means for Californians.
- And I also think that legislating, because that's what it is, so many Californians think that they're expressing their opinion about the issue.
- He is a Californian and he's born in in San Francisco.
- So when Louisiana has federal disaster, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, Californians are paying a lot of that.
Examples
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That's why our children are Californian now.
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She actually united Republicans and Democrats in the Assembly to pass new laws to improve the lives of all Californians.
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What I did is I said every Californian gets a certain amount of water permits.
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As people say the Californians have only four things to fear, earth, air, Fire and water.
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I will speak as a Southern Californian, not as a Lutheran.
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Typical Californians are afraid of the rain.
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And I'm glad to see a fellow Californian gets over $100,000.
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Californians invented the concept of lifestyle.
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Like most Californians, Lulu hopes the region has learned from past quakes.
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A Californian named Maria started a community garden to promote sustainable living.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Californian = California (transparent) = California + ian
The suffix '-ian' is a standard derivation to indicate a person from a place.
Etymology
Californian comes from the place name California plus the ending -an, which means 'from' or 'relating to', like in American. Spanish explorers named the area after a popular book about a mythical island, so a Californian is someone 'from California'.