单词 | northerner |
释义 | northernern. 1. A native or inhabitant of the north, or of the northern part of a country. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > northern people > person northerner1283 Septentrion1607 northerling1616 northern1774 northlander1797 hyperborean1816 1283 Patent Roll, 11 Edward I 16 Feb. (P.R.O.: C 66/102) m. 22 John le Northeyner. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 26 The Westerners and Northerners [will answer] that it is lead tinne and iron. 1824 C. M. Sedgwick Redwood II. xi. 73 We southern people..do not understand this game of question and answer as well as you frank northerners. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) vii. 187 The northerner is perforce a householder. 1867 J. Hatton Tallants i These northerners are a rare practical race. 1906 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 6/6 Auckland, the original capital, was too far north to suit the southern folks, and Dunedin..was too far south to be tolerated by the northerners. 1936 H. E. R. Steele Policing Arctic 211 Every Northerner knows that a backward glance over the trail just traversed often helps in keeping direction. 1992 R. Kelly Strange Market 37 The Greeks called the first condition chaos or the Yawn, the Northerners said Gap or Yawning Gap. 2. spec. a. A person living in or coming from the northern part of the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 60 Such for beauty and splendor and fragrance, the Northerners have never seen. 1890 G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia 119 The Northerners protected by the strong fortifications they had thrown up round Washington. 1928 I. C. Ward Phonetics of Eng. i. 3 A Northerner's pronunciation of but..is called ‘broad’. 1945 Chicago Daily News 1 Feb. 8/7 It's about time we long-suffering Northerners got it off our chest. 1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists i. 9 The Illinois Central Railroad began colonizing these parishes with northerners. b. A person living in or coming from the north of England. Frequently contrasted with southerner (southerner n. c). ΚΠ 1873 Graphic 29 Nov. 519/3 The question decided which is the better sculler of the two or the better man, the Northerner or the Southerner. 1907 Times 15 Apr. 11/2 There was scarcely a detail in which the northerners were not on the afternoon's play superior to the more famous southerners. 1980 J. Wainwright Dominoes v. 120 He was a Northerner. He carried an inbuilt distrust of Southerners. 2003 Front June 24/4 Northerners sink more pints than Southerners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1283 |
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