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West-sider

West-sider

7.6
A person who lives on the west side of Manhattan in New York City
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛstˌsaɪdər/
  • US
translation icon : habitante del West Side
  • The festival attracted many West-siders who wanted to celebrate their neighborhood's culture.

They were just from the Upper West Side and Jewish Israel supporters.

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Examples

  • As a lifelong West-sider, he knows all the best coffee spots in Manhattan.

  • They were just from the Upper West Side and Jewish Israel supporters.

  • Living in a brownstone on the Upper West Side, she proudly identifies as a true West-sider.

Surface Forms

West-sider singular
West-siders plural

Morphology

West-sider = West Side (transparent) = west + side + er

Formed from the place name 'West Side' plus the agentive suffix '-er', so a learner who knows the place and '-er' can infer 'a person from the West Side'.

Etymology

West-sider comes from the simple parts west ('west', the direction) and side turned into -sider to mean 'someone on that side'. So a West-sider is a person who lives on the west side of a place, for example in Manhattan.