United Statesian

English

Alternative forms

• United-Statesian

Etymology

United States +‎ -ian

Adjective

United Statesian (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
   • 1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, 2nd edition, page 76:

     For this blue-book is a sort of school primer, intended to teach the Danes how to pronounce the United-Statesian language, and perhaps we English may have a lesson, too.

   • 2005, Greg Scott, editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400:

     There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.

Quotations

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Translations

of or pertaining to the United States of America — see US-American

Noun

United Statesian (plural United Statesians)

1. (nonstandard) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
   • 1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:

     To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.

   • 2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175:

     If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:United Statesian.

Synonyms

• United Statian
• US-American
• Usonian
• American
• US-ian
• Usanian
• See also Thesaurus:American

Translations

US-American — see US-American

References

• "United States" in Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition revised, Oxford Dictionaries, 2008.