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Sanditonians

Sanditonians is the plural of Sanditonian.

Meaning of Sanditonian

Noun

Sanditonian (plural Sanditonians)

  1. (literary criticism) An inhabitant of the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.
    • It is fitting that all roads in the town Mr. Parker has “planned and built, and praised and puffed” (328) seem to lead to the circulating library, because Sanditonians like Parker, who has built on sand, seem immensely willing to invest in empty convention—in signs in the place of substance. […]...1998, Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part two (Inside...

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What is Sanditonians the plural of?
Sanditonians is the plural of Sanditonian.

Words near Sanditonians in the dictionary

  1. Sandins
  2. Sandip
  3. Sandisfield
  4. sandish
  5. Sanditonian
  6. Sanditonians
  7. Sandiva
  8. sandiver
  9. sandix
  10. sandkruiper
  11. sandkruipers

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