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Nantucketer

Nantucketer noun: an inhabitant of Nantucket.

Noun

Nantucketer (plural Nantucketers)

  1. An inhabitant of Nantucket.
    • At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island. […] But most of all, at the dawn of a new millennium, who is a Nantucketer and what constitutes Nantucket heritage have been transformed.2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, pages 1, 4
    • There is a whale swimming right now
      who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850
      and a Japanese whale ship in 1950
      who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind2024, Nate DiMeo, “Fifty Words Written About the Arctic Bowhead Whale After Learning That They Can Live up to Two Hundred Years”, in The Memory Palace

Forms of Nantucketer

pluralNantucketers

Origin of Nantucketer

From Nantucket + -er.

Questions about Nantucketer

What does Nantucketer mean?
Nantucketer means an inhabitant of Nantucket.
What part of speech is Nantucketer?
Nantucketer is a noun.
What is the plural of Nantucketer?
The plural of Nantucketer is Nantucketers.

Words near Nantucketer in the dictionary

  1. Nantucket sleigh rides
  2. Nantucket sleigh-ride
  3. Nantucket sleigh-rides
  4. Nantucket sleighride
  5. Nantucket sleighrides
  6. Nantucketer
  7. Nantucketers
  8. Nantung
  9. Nantwich
  10. nanty
  11. Nanty Glo

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