Ohioan
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- noun
- /oʊˈhaɪən/
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ohioense
- I was never a huge Ohio State fan (although, as a good Ohioan, I do hate Michigan).
Examples
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"Have we a government?" wondered an Ohioan.
Academic text (1991) -
Every Ohioan knows that football season is a very important time of year.
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Why proclaim yourself a former Ohioan only to watch your face lose its features?
Academic text (2001) -
But before I do, I want to say how proud I am that Amy is a fellow Ohioan because what she said made so much sense.
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As an Ohioan, it pains me to say this, but no on Portman.
Blog text (25) -
It all came down to "one Constitution and one Country," declared an Ohioan with the 49th Infantry.
Academic text (1991) -
As a native NE Ohioan, some of my rooting interests are predictable.
Blog text (27) -
Among an Ohioan's blessings is the possibility, nowadays so rare, of being left blissfully alone.
Academic text (2001) -
Why should any of us play the star-struck yokel just to satisfy an easterner's notion of what an Ohioan is?
Academic text (2001) -
Debs had retained a shrewd and pugnacious lawyer named Clarence Darrow, an Ohioan who had come to the big city some years ago.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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A person from the state of Ohio
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ohioan comes from the place name Ohio plus the ending -an, as in Canadian, which means 'from' or 'belonging to'. The name Ohio comes from an old Native American word meaning 'great river', so an Ohioan is someone 'from the great river' area and today simply means a person who lives in or comes from the state of Ohio.