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YANKEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An American (especially to non-Americans)
Synonyms:
Yank; Yankee; Yankee-Doodle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):
American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An American who lives in New England
Synonyms:
New Englander; Yankee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):
American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)
Holonyms ("Yankee" is a member of...):
New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
Synonyms:
Northerner; Yank; Yankee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):
American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Yankee"):
Federal; Federal soldier; Union soldier (a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War)
Holonyms ("Yankee" is a member of...):
North (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line)
Derivation:
Yankee (used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)
Classified under:
Similar:
northern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Derivation:
Yankee (an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War))
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