southwesterner

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A person who comes from or lives in the southwest part of a country

noun
/saʊθˈwɛstərnər/

: suroesteño

I'm a Midwest-born Southwesterner transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, which should explain some personality quirks, the tendency to sprinkle Spanish around, and why I'll subject you to some real jawbreakers in the place names department.

Examples

Since they have a Southwesterner who believes in immigration reform and—since he lives in a state with Hispanics—realizes they're not secret foreign agents.

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As a proud southwesterner, she often shares stories about her life in the warm deserts of Arizona.
The festival celebrating southwestern culture attracted many southwesterners eager to showcase their traditions.
Growing up as a southwesterner, he learned to love the unique cuisine and vibrant music of the region.

Surface Forms

southwesterner singular

southwesterners plural

Morphology

southwesterner = southwestern (transparent) = south + west + ern + er

Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-er' to the clear adjective 'southwestern' to denote a person from that region.

Etymology

The word southwesterner comes from south and west, which together give southwest ('the area to the south and west'), plus the ending -er that makes a person. So a southwesterner is someone who comes from or lives in the 'southwest' part of a country.