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East-sider

East-sider

6.5
A person who lives on the east side of a city like New York
  • noun
  • /ˈiːstˌsaɪdər/
  • US
translation icon : habitante del lado este
  • As an East-sider, she takes pride in the vibrant culture of her neighborhood in Manhattan.

There's a couple who lives on the Upper East Side of New York.

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Examples

  • Now for this next place I am super excited to get it's a place called whipped here in the Lower East Side and they are claimed to be the world's first oat milk soft serve.

  • It consists of a main hospital that's in the neighborhoods of the Upper East Side abutting East Harlem, if people know New York.

  • Now we're in the Upper East Side about to go to the Met Museum.

  • He's a type of guy you only pretty much see on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

  • Yeah, Mother, we don't want to get into that discussion 'cause, you know, I think we should move and Lenny is a devoted Upper East-sider.

  • He was spending time working for George Plimpton at the Paris Review, and he would go to these fancy, you know, Upper East Side parties with all these mucky mucks.

  • He always meets his friends at a café in the East-side because he enjoys the local atmosphere.

  • Living as an East-sider has its perks, especially with the variety of restaurants and parks nearby.

Surface Forms

East-sider singular
East-siders plural

Morphology

East-sider = east + side (transparent) = east + side + er

Formed from the place-name components 'east' + 'side' with the agentive suffix '-er' meaning 'a person from (the East Side)', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

East-sider comes from east ('the direction where the sun rises') and side ('part of a place') with the ending -er meaning 'a person'. So, an East-sider is simply someone who lives on the east side of a city, like the east side of Manhattan.