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Ozarkian

Ozarkian adjective: of or from the Ozark region of the United States.

Adjective

Ozarkian (comparative more Ozarkian, superlative most Ozarkian)

  1. Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
    • It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms.2012, Sarah Menkedick, Vela, Volume 1

Noun

Ozarkian (plural Ozarkians)

  1. An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.
    • Another Ozarkian who I met after I'd been gone a long time, told me that her oldest son hadn't been accepted into the Army because he "couldn't pass mustard," but was now a "highway petroleum."2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, page 235

Forms of Ozarkian

Adjective
comparativemore Ozarkian
superlativemost Ozarkian
Noun
pluralOzarkians

Origin of Ozarkian

From Ozark + -ian.

Questions about Ozarkian

What does Ozarkian mean?
Ozarkian means of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
What part of speech is Ozarkian?
Ozarkian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Ozarkian in the dictionary

  1. Ozark Mountains
  2. Ozark Plateau
  3. Ozark sundrops
  4. Ozarker
  5. Ozarkers
  6. Ozarkian
  7. Ozarkians
  8. ozarkite
  9. ozarkites
  10. ozarkodinid
  11. ozarkodiniform

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