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Yankee land

Yankee land proper noun: the United States.

Proper noun

Yankee land

  1. (UK, informal) The United States.
    • A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes[…] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217
  2. (Southern US, derogatory, sometimes) The northern United States.
  3. (Northern-US) New England.

Forms of Yankee land

alternative formYankeeland
alternative formYankee-land

Questions about Yankee land

What does Yankee land mean?
Yankee land means the United States.
What part of speech is Yankee land?
Yankee land is a proper noun.

Words near Yankee land in the dictionary

  1. Yankee Doodle
  2. Yankee Doodles
  3. Yankee football
  4. Yankee Hill
  5. Yankee ingenuity
  6. Yankee land
  7. Yankee screwdriver
  8. Yankee screwdrivers
  9. Yankee swap
  10. Yankee swaps
  11. Yankee Thanksgiving

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