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easterner

easterner

7 3.3
A person who lives in the eastern part of a country, for example the eastern United States
  • noun
  • /ˈiːstərnər/
: oriental
  • She's just one of many Easterners who now call Arizona their home.
  • Middle Easterners
  • Easterners and Asians
  • Easterners' humanity

Examples

  • To an Easterner, especially from New England, Montana was far more exotic than California was.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • And as the American West was settled, many easterners and midwesterners found a place there for a second beginning.

    Academic text (2009)

  • My mother was an Easterner, not used to this kind of country.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • - He's an Easterner from Kansas City, Missouri.

    Stagecoach (1939)

  • That's the trouble with a lot of Easterners.

    Giant (1956)

  • There simply wasn't a pack of ranchers falling over each other to hire an Easterner with corduroy pants and a funny accent.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • He's an Easterner from Kansas City, Missouri.

  • The idea that she and her friends are all Easterners by birth and inclination is significant.

Surface Forms

easterner singular
easterners plural

Morphology

easterner = eastern (transparent) = east + ern + er

The formation 'eastern' + '-er' is a straightforward agentive derivation meaning 'a person from the eastern area'.

Etymology

Easterner starts with east, an old word meaning 'the direction where the sun rises', so an easterner is 'a person who comes from the east' of a country or region.