New Englander
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3.7
- noun
- /nuː ˈɪŋɡləndər/
:
neoyorquino
- My inner New Englander came out as I remembered how to drive in this region.
I mean, 'cause they're just stuffy New Englanders, you know, you know, separated from Europeans and everything.
- I mean, 'cause they're just stuffy New Englanders, you know, you know, separated from Europeans and everything.
- There's there's this mention that Lovecraft has of these New Englanders who, you know, believe in the Christian God and they've got this sort of dour view.
Examples
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Like true New Englanders, we prepared for the worst and we hoped for the best.
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A plain-speaking New Englander with 30 years' experience as a probation officer, White works with female offenders.
Academic text (1995) -
From Time magazine, July 4, 1976, a George Washington quote about New Englanders.
Blog text (24) -
I am a New Englander at heart, but I currently live in the Midwest.
Blog text (2) -
Her father was a New Englander, a Connecticut Yankee.
Fiction book (1999) -
And some people even had the sneaking suspicion that maybe New Englanders wouldn't be willing to fight under anybody else.
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His speech pattern will identify him as erudite or obtuse, an Okie or a New Englander, a stuffed shirt or a clown.
Academic text (2009) -
Isaac Elliott Trask was a New Englander and a lawyer who had ridden with Alexander Hamilton to put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
Academic text (2017) -
Mrs. Worthington (Olive) is an elegant, fiftyish New Englander, as handsome as Wally, but more reserved.
Fiction book (1999) -
As a proud New Englander, she loves the beautiful fall foliage in her home state.
Synonyms
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5.8
A person from the northern United States, often from New England
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3.5
A person from the northeast of a country
Surface Forms
Morphology
New + Englander
The referent is compositionally derived from the place-name New England plus the agentive -er, so anyone who recognises the compound place name will find the meaning predictable. However, a B1 learner who only knows the separate words 'New' and 'Englander' is likely to misinterpret it (e.g. as a 'new person from England') and therefore the correct geographic sense depends on knowing the lexicalized place-name, making it partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
The noun New Englander comes from the place name New England, a name English settlers gave because the land reminded them of England. So a New Englander is literally someone from that 'new' England, meaning 'a person from New England'.