Kansan
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- noun
- /ˈkænzən/
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kansano
- So then I went from being an accidental Kansan to an unlikely Kansan.
- Daily Kansan
- University Daily Kansan
- fellow Kansan
Examples
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Its retail stores and hospital are large enough to be competitive in the modern world, and many Kansans enjoy their services.
Academic text (2004) -
Although examples exist throughout the Plains states and beyond, Kansans are most enthusiastic about the free-land idea.
Academic text (2004) -
What did you expect, that he was a Kansan named Smith?
Blog text (5) -
In fact, he adds that many of his smartest friends are former Kansans.
Fiction book (1998) -
What tickled me was hearing older white Kansans proudly claiming him as family.
Blog text (18) -
"Until one morning in mid-November, 1959 "few Americans, in fact few Kansans, had ever heard of Holcomb."
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Brown says his opponent "hurt low-income Kansans" when he voted for a one-cent tax increase in 2010.
Blog text (28) -
In 1942, the Emporia Gazette editor and famous Kansan writer William Allen White called Oak Hill "The Kansas Arlington."
Academic text (2009) -
But Gates, who still possesses a modest Kansan's bemusement at Washington excess, has floated another theory.
Blog text (23) -
In 2005, Kansans voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kansan comes from the state name Kansas, which itself comes from a Native American tribe called the Kansa, a name thought to mean 'people of the south wind'. The -an ending is like in American or Texan and simply means 'a person from' that place, so a Kansan is someone from Kansas.