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Detroiter

Detroiter noun: a native or inhabitant of Detroit.

Noun

Detroiter (plural Detroiters)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Detroit.
    • If you're a Detroiter who needs a police officer, it will take 58 minutes to get help -- more than five times what it takes elsewhere in the United States.2013 July 19, Aaron Smith, “16 things that are wrong in Detroit”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024
    • Suddenly, the hardscrabble, gritty Detroiters are in need of a savior – someone to rescue us from all this grittiness and strife, because that’s what we’ve been waiting for all this time, right?2017 October 5, Aaron Foley, “Why Detroit’s city storyteller wants to ban the word ‘gritty’”, in CNN

Forms of Detroiter

pluralDetroiters

Origin of Detroiter

From Detroit + -er.

Questions about Detroiter

What does Detroiter mean?
Detroiter means a native or inhabitant of Detroit.
What part of speech is Detroiter?
Detroiter is a noun.
What is the plural of Detroiter?
The plural of Detroiter is Detroiters.

Words near Detroiter in the dictionary

  1. detrivory
  2. Detroit
  3. Detroit City
  4. Detroit Lakes
  5. Detroit River
  6. Detroiter
  7. Detroiters
  8. detroon
  9. detrooned
  10. detrooning
  11. detroons

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