Chicagoan
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- noun
- /ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊən/
- This Chicagoan proudly shares stories of the city's rich history with newcomers.
- native Chicagoans
- Ethnic Chicagoans
- Polish Chicagoans
Examples
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This Chicagoan is making his seventh All-Star appearance.
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As a lifelong Chicagoan, she knows all the best spots to eat deep-dish pizza.
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I'm a proud sixth generation Chicagoan.
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Moore: In fact, lots of Chicagoans showed up to support the workers.
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Samuel Gross, a Chicagoan, was perhaps the largest builder of houses in the country.
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A disproportionate number of highly educated Black Chicagoans could not find employment matching their qualifications.
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Polish and Czech Chicagoans fought just as ferociously over the role of religion.
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Irish, Czech, and German Chicagoans erected monuments to their soldier dead in their cemeteries.
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Most Chicagoans were not so overtly nativist, and ethnic Chicagoans continued to celebrate American holidays in their own inimitable ways.
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Many Chicagoans gather annually for the Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chicagoan comes from the city name Chicago, from a Native American word meaning 'wild onion' or 'wild garlic', together with the ending -an that means 'from' or 'relating to', like in American. So a Chicagoan is a person 'from Chicago' or someone who lives there.