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YANKEE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An American (especially to non-Americans)

Synonyms:

Yank; Yankee; Yankee-Doodle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An American who lives in New England

Synonyms:

New Englander; Yankee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Holonyms ("Yankee" is a member of...):

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

Synonyms:

Northerner; Yank; Yankee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Yankee" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Yankee"):

Federal; Federal soldier; Union soldier (a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War)

Holonyms ("Yankee" is a member of...):

North (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line)

Derivation:

Yankee (used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier))

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

northern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)

Derivation:

Yankee (an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War))

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