Yankeedom
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editYankeedom (uncountable)
- The region inhabited by Yankees.
- The condition, state, sphere, or influence of Yankees or of being a Yankee.
- 1910, Lafcadio Hearn, Elizabeth Bisland, The Japanese letters of Lafcadio Hearn:
- Our civilization, with all its aspirations, is industrial and commercial — and there is no morality in that competition worth priding ourselves upon. It isn't Yankeedom more than it is Anglodom.
- Yankees collectively.