South Dakotan
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- noun
- /saʊθ dəˈkoʊtən/
- South Dakotans celebrate local festivals that highlight their rich cultural heritage.
Examples
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"Nearly 100,000 South Dakotans on Medicare received free preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies as a result of health reform.
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"This is a huge win for South Dakotans and the nation."
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Forty percent of South Dakotans are of German ancestry, 16% of Scandinavian, and 10% of Irish.
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In a nation where the 600,000 South Dakotans get two senators, and the 8 million in New York City barely get one, it's hardly a matter of democracy.
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A South Dakotan made the local connection even more explicit: "We are adjacent to Custer State Park, famous for its buffalo herd, so we planned a barbecue with buffalo steaks."
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Nothing infuriates South Dakotans more than to suggest that those anti-intellectual, anti-educational, anti-cultural attitudes make the state an oppressively backward place to live for educated and motivated people.
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South Dakotans enjoy outdoor activities like hiking and fishing in their beautiful state parks.
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South Dakotans often gather for community events to foster togetherness during the winter months.
Synonyms
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A person from North Dakota or South Dakota
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a native or inhabitant of South Dakota' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: 'Dakotan' denotes a person from Dakota and the prefixing 'South' localizes that person to South Dakota. Demonym formation by attaching a place specifier is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
South Dakotan comes from the state name South Dakota plus the ending -an, a simple way to form a word for someone from a place. That's why South Dakotan means 'a person who lives in South Dakota'.