of or relating to a person surnamed Jackson, esp Andrew Jackson
Jacksonian in American English
(dʒækˈsoʊniən)
adjective
1.
of or relating to Andrew Jackson or his policies
noun
2.
a follower of Jackson
Jacksonian in American English
(dʒækˈsouniən)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him
Jacksonian democracy
noun
2.
a follower of Andrew Jackson
Word origin
[1815–25, Amer.; jackson + -ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aggressive, artifact, diorama, treadmill, trolley-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)