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stater

stater

3 8.1
A person who lives in a US state
  • noun
  • /ˈsteɪtər/
  • US
translation icon : habitante del estado
  • After years as a diehard Penn Stater, Adam Taliaferro quietly has followed a second college football team this season.

So that more than offsets the demographic advantage of having more out of Staters move in.

Examples

  • As a red-stater who was recently diagnosed with heart disease, I'm less than thrilled with the result.

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  • Question 3 is one of those feel-good measures that Bay Staters just love.

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  • The world we live in today as Penn Staters is not the world we lived in a year ago.

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  • Perhaps Blue Staters can give us Red Staters tips on how to live in this brave new world.

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  • As an Oregon Stater, I don't expect many PAC-16 titles.

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  • As a fourth-generation Penn Stater, I think that my family's legacy needs to be more than JoePa.

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  • Bill O'Brien has been the antidote to all that ails Penn Staters these days.

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  • But by early 2010, things had stagnated in the state. Bay Staters weren't happy, and the Gov was polling mid-30s approval.

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  • As we speak, Golden Staters are deciding whether to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, seen here yelling bring me more pomade.

  • Many blue-staters have made the same joke, each one thinking he is the first to do so.

Compounds

Bay Stater
  • US
1 8.5

A person from or living in Massachusetts

Bluegrass Stater
8.3

A person born in or living in Kentucky, often called the Bluegrass State

Keystone Stater
9.1

A person who was born in or lives in the US state of Pennsylvania

Granite Stater
8.7

A person who lives in New Hampshire, USA

Surface Forms

stater singular
staters plural

Morphology

stater = state (transparent) = state + er

The resident sense is a straightforward noun formed from 'state' plus the agentive suffix '-er'.

Etymology

Stater is formed from state + the ending -er, meaning 'one who is from' or 'one who belongs to', so a stater is someone who lives in or belongs to a particular state.