Brooklynite
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- noun
- /ˈbrʊklɪnaɪt/
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brooklynita
- After moving from Manhattan, he embraced his identity as a Brooklynite with pride.
- Brooklynite says
Examples
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"Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is the most extraordinary thing to do in the city," says native Brooklynite and licensed NYC Tour Guide Matt Levy.
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Brooklynite bottom half of the 1% who are having some difficulty paying for designer preschools.
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All French deserts me when I'm angry, so I reverted to being a mad Brooklynite and demanded to know the policeman's badge number.
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That was a good choice: I suspect that she's more representative of the NYT's broad national readership than just about any long-term Brooklynite would be.
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Mike Tyson, like Patterson, a Brooklynite trained by Cus D'Amato, wasn't born yet.
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I am still stunned by the experience; like any good thirtysomething Brooklynite, I had envisioned the glowing "natural" birth, the whole holistic bill of goods that has been sold to us strong, empowered, modern women.
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As a childhood friend, Brooklynite, and loyal Rangers fan assured me over email today: "They're not getting a multi-million dollar, Jigga-led marketing makeover, and now it's going to be easier to go to their games and mock.
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As a lifelong Brooklynite, she knows all the best pizza places in the borough.
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Growing up as a Brooklynite, he developed a love for diverse cultures and communities.
Synonyms
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A person born in or living in New York City
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brooklynite is made from Brooklyn and the ending -ite, which means 'a person from a place', so a Brooklynite is simply someone who lives in or comes from Brooklyn.