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Carolinian

Carolinian

8 5.9
A person who lives in North or South Carolina in the United States
  • noun
  • /ˌkɛrəˈlɪniən/
: carolinense
  • I want to urge my fellow North Carolinians to vote for the marriage amendment on Tuesday, May 8.
  • South Carolinians
  • North Carolinians

So you could have two N Carolinians right?

Examples

  • North Carolinians, with no state lottery of their own, spend $100 million annually participating in Virginia's lottery.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The efforts of black South Carolinians met with some success.

    Academic text (2008)

  • A native South Carolinian with French roots, he had previously served as president of the association.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Another task is to help North Carolinians understand how much they pay in taxes at all levels.

    Blog text (24)

  • Both citations come from South Carolinian records but from different time periods and authors.

    Academic text (2008)

  • What's more, remarkable numbers of North Carolinians did not understand what Amendment 1 did.

    Blog text (1)

  • Alan Wilson said it's time for the feds to start treating South Carolinians like adults.

    Blog text (15)

  • Epic fantasy author M. Edward McNally is a North Carolinian of Irish-Mexican extraction.

    Blog text (19)

  • Taken together, these provisions both set out a new suite of positive rights for all North Carolinians and sought to create an empowered electorate to protect them.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Many South Carolinians enjoy attending the annual state fair.

Synonyms

Southerner
vsCarolinian
44 3.5

A person from the southern United States

is from the specific area of North or South Carolina

Surface Forms

Carolinian singular
Carolinians plural

Morphology

Carolinian = Carolina (transparent) = Carolina + ian

Productive demonym-forming suffix '-ian' added to the place name 'Carolina', yielding 'a person from Carolina' with an easily derivable meaning.

Etymology

Carolinian comes from Carolina, the place name given to the two US states after King Charles, and Carolina comes from the Latin Carolus, meaning 'Charles'. So a Carolinian is a person from Carolina, either North or South Carolina.