South Carolinian
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌsaʊθ kəˈroʊlɪniən/
- Many South Carolinians take pride in their rich cultural heritage.
- fellow South Carolinian
- native South Carolinian
- South Carolinians vote
Examples
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President Roosevelt was the keynote speaker for the closing ceremonies of the 1933 bicentennial celebration held at the Savannah Municipal Stadium and addressed a crowd of nearly 40,000 Georgians and South Carolinians.
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A native South Carolinian with French roots, he had previously served as president of the association.
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The efforts of black South Carolinians met with some success.
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As a South Carolinian, I am so very humbly embarrassed by MS.
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Both citations come from South Carolinian records but from different time periods and authors.
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To be exact, North Carolinians are Yankees to South Carolinians.
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Alan Wilson said it's time for the feds to start treating South Carolinians like adults.
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South Carolinians have sent $95 million a year in lottery monies to subsidize Georgia's state education system.
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In a second correspondence, for example, 22-year-old Thomas Jefferson Withers wrote to fellow South Carolinian James Henry Hammond in 1826:
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Here is a reminiscence left by one Berry Benson, a South Carolinian who served all four years as an enlisted man in the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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5.9
A person who lives in North or South Carolina in the United States
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2.7
A person who comes from or lives in the south of a country
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently built from 'South' (the southern part) + 'Carolinian' (a person from Carolina), so the compound clearly denotes a person from South Carolina. This is a regular demonymic composition found across languages and follows predictable English formation, making it understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
South Carolinian comes from the state name South Carolina and literally names someone from that place. So, a South Carolinian means 'a person who comes from South Carolina'.