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New-Yorkian

New-Yorkian is the rare spelling of New Yorkian.

Meaning of New Yorkian

Adjective

New Yorkian (comparative more New Yorkian, superlative most New Yorkian)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of, New York.
    • There is the Paris sadness, which is that of satiety and reaction, and the Viennese, which is that of Strauss. / There is the Bostonian, which is commercial literary; and the New Yorkian, which is blague commercial—yet no bad spirit withal—and the Philadelphian, which is peculiar in being without a...1853 March 5, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “The Sadness of Rome---and Other Cities”, in The Pen and Pencil. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art and News., volume I, number X, Cincinnati, Oh....

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Forms of New-Yorkian

comparativemore New-Yorkian
superlativemost New-Yorkian

Origin of New-Yorkian

From New-York or New York + -ian.

Questions about New-Yorkian

What is New-Yorkian the rare spelling of?
New-Yorkian is the rare spelling of New Yorkian.

Words near New-Yorkian in the dictionary

  1. new-wavish
  2. New-Wes-Valley
  3. New-York
  4. New-Yorkeress
  5. New-Yorkeresses
  6. New-Yorkian
  7. Newa
  8. Newah
  9. Newall
  10. Newall with Clifton
  11. Newar

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