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Yankeeland

Yankeeland is the alternative spelling of Yankee land.

Meaning of Yankee land

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.

Origin of Yankeeland

From Yankee + -land.

Questions about Yankeeland

What is Yankeeland the alternative spelling of?
Yankeeland is the alternative spelling of Yankee land.

Words near Yankeeland in the dictionary

  1. Yankeeization
  2. Yankeeize
  3. Yankeeized
  4. Yankeeizes
  5. Yankeeizing
  6. Yankeeland
  7. Yankeeness
  8. yankees
  9. Yankees Creek
  10. Yankeese
  11. Yankeetown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yankeeland (page history and authors); Yankee land (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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