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yorker

yorker

112 8.9
A person who comes from the city of York in northern England
  • noun
  • /ˈjɔːkə/
translation icon : habitante de York
  • As a New Yorker, it's a, it's like a thing.

Examples

  • This he was not just a New Yorker, but a proud New Yorker.

  • I was just reading a profile of him in The New Yorker.

    Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

  • The average New Yorker will walk four to five miles a day... a day!

    Super Size Me (2004)

  • I saw how the chubby New Yorker looked him up and down, and then at me.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • But I am a New Yorker and try to take these things in stride.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Our guide was a beautiful and charming New Yorker who had made aliya thirteen years ago.

    Academic text (2015)

  • You're a New Yorker, and we're both suffering through humidity right now, having gone to school here and then living here now.

  • I'm a New Yorker.

    Crocodile Dundee (1986)

  • "I'd venture to guess that's more than the average New Yorker knows," Chet said.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • As a proud New Yorker, she enjoys exploring the unique neighborhoods of her city.

Synonyms

Yorkish
vsyorker
9.8

A person from the city of York in northern England

has identical meaning but differs only in word form

Compounds

New Yorker
146 2.8

A person born in or living in New York City

Surface Forms

yorker singular
yorkers plural

Morphology

yorker = York (transparent) = York + er

This is a straightforward demonym formation meaning a person from York.

Etymology

Yorker is simply a person from the city York, formed by adding the ending -er to the place name, just like Londoner means someone from London. So a yorker is literally 'from' York.