North Carolinian
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- noun
- /nɔrθ kəˈroʊlɪniən/
- "About one in four North Carolinians identified as moderates, while 45 percent identified as 'somewhat conservative' or 'very conservative.'"
- a native North Carolinian
- percent of North Carolinians
- North Carolinian of the Year
Examples
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Another task is to help North Carolinians understand how much they pay in taxes at all levels.
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North Carolinians, with no state lottery of their own, spend $100 million annually participating in Virginia's lottery.
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A generation ago, what North Carolinian would imagine that a black man could carry the state in a presidential election?
Blog text (13) -
I want to urge my fellow North Carolinians to vote for the marriage amendment on Tuesday, May 8.
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What's more, remarkable numbers of North Carolinians did not understand what Amendment 1 did.
Blog text (1) -
Last night, he appeared at the North Carolina Jefferson-Jackson dinner where he told North Carolinians:
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You have to remember that this was during the Cold War; tensions were running high, and we North Carolinians needed something to bring it down to a more personal level.
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Last year, we immunized more than 1.6 million North Carolinians against H1N1 flu.
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Epic fantasy author M. Edward McNally is a North Carolinian of Irish-Mexican extraction.
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The North Carolinians celebrated their state holiday with parades and festivals.
Synonyms
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A person born in or living in North Carolina, US
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is fully compositional: 'North' simply specifies which 'Carolinian' is meant, so a learner who knows 'north' and 'Carolinian' can infer 'a person from North Carolina'. Demonym formation with geographic modifiers is a common and regular pattern in English (and many other languages), making this transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
North Carolinian comes from the place name North Carolina plus the ending -ian, which turns a place name into a word for a person from that place. So North Carolinian literally means 'from' North Carolina and today is used for 'a native or inhabitant of the state of North Carolina'.