单词 | alabamian |
释义 | Alabamiann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of the North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the area around the Alabama river; = Alabama n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun] Floridian1589 Chickasaw1674 Yamasee1699 Alabama1708 Natchez1708 Santee1709 Cherokee1721 Choctaw1722 Coushatta1722 Creek1725 Yuchi1738 Muskogee1751 Floridan1763 Muskogee1789 Mikasuki1791 Opelousa1805 Karankawa1806 Tunica1806 Melungeon1813 Alabamian1817 Ozark1819 Alabaman1829 1817 J. Reid & J. H. Eaton Life A. Jackson ii. 27 He..prevailed on the greater part of the Alabamians to..return again to their savage state. 1829 F. X. Martin Hist. Louisiana I. i. 11 Of the Indians..visited by Soto, the Tuscaloosas, Mobilians and Alabamians, are the only ones who, at this day retain their names. 1910 Proc. National Convent. Insurance Commissioners U.S. 15 In the early days of Louisiana, this section was occupied by..the Alabamians, and the Mobilians. 2. A native or inhabitant of the state of Alabama. ΚΠ 1821 Niles' Weekly Reg. 24 Mar. 64/1 List of house of representatives of the state of Alabama: Virginians, 18..and 1 Alabamian. 1822 (title) The Alabamian. 1886 Harper's Mag. Jan. 323/1 A certain piece of social attention which leaves the imagination of an Alabama brigadier quite unmoved——possibly because the Alabamian has not the perspective for viewing it aright. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 552/1 (note) There is the interesting observation that the Alabamians of that era [sc. 1819] pronounced the State name Ol-aw-baw-ma. 1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 7 Dec. d4 The mixture of Georgians and Alabamians has brought Jacksonville State to the brink of its first national championship in football. 2010 E. O. Wilson Anthill v. 60 He couldn't smoke or take a sip of anything, sitting there in the midst of two hundred or so righteous Alabamians. B. adj. Of or relating to the state of Alabama, or to its inhabitants. ΚΠ 1834 A. Woods (title) Introductory lecture before the Alabamian Institute. 1875 E. King Great South xxv. 342 Something should be done to arrest the drainage toward Texas; it is dwarfing the development of the Alabamian towns. 1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 137 I am merely myself,..standing in my sweated clothes,..foundered as stone in sea in deepest Alabamian rurality. 2009 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 5 July (Pasco Times section) 1 Your experience of life isn't complete until you have heard Captain Kirk bark orders in an Alabamian accent. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1817 |
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