Nebraskan
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- noun
- /nəˈbræskən/
:
nebraskense
- Rheta Childe Dorr, a Nebraskan and nationally famous journalist and feminist, writing in the New York Times Magazine in 1915, described the hypothesis as follows:
- a Native Nebraskan
- Nebraskan family
- the Daily Nebraskan
She says, I'm humbled by the faith and trust Nebraskans have placed in me as I take this oath for the third time.
- She says, I'm humbled by the faith and trust Nebraskans have placed in me as I take this oath for the third time.
Examples
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The most famous Nebraskan at the time of Chandler's boyhood was the blunt-speaking Senator William Jennings Bryan, who campaigned throughout his political career for a return to the plain values of pre-industrial small-town America.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm a Nebraskan as you've already figured out.
Blog text (12) -
Born a Nebraskan, raised a Nebraskan, will die a Nebraskan!
Blog text (6) -
Being Nebraskan isn't always about where you live.
Blog text (13) -
That aside, as a former Nebraskan living in Chicago, the second I cross the border into Nebraska, Runza is the first place I look for.
Blog text (12) -
She says, I'm humbled by the faith and trust Nebraskans have placed in me as I take this oath for the third time.
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He's preparing a paper on the divorce rates of Nebraskan homesteaders in the 1840s and 1880s.
Fiction book (1995) -
Dunbar's assessment of the lives of Native Nebraskan men and women was echoed again and again by early nineteenth-century explorers, missionaries, and Indian agents.
Academic text (1995) -
This study seeks to begin addressing that gap by using a general population sample of Nebraskan adults to understand access to marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, and prescription pills in the general population, how participant characteristics are related to access, and whether access in the state differs by rural versus urban locations.
Academic text (2018) -
As a proud Nebraskan, she passionately supports her local football team every fall.
Synonyms
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A person from Nebraska, especially an athlete at the University of Nebraska
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nebraskan comes from the state name Nebraska, which itself comes from a Native American word meaning 'flat water' for the Platte River. The ending -an means a person from a place, just like in American, so a Nebraskan is someone from Nebraska.