Yankee

[Yan·kee]

An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

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A nickname for a native of citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

Noun
an American

Noun
an American who lives in New England

Noun
an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

Adjective S.
used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

n.
A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

a.
Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.

Yankee

Yan"kee , n. [Commonly considered to be a corrupt pronunciation of the word English, or of the French word Anglais, by the native Indians of America. According to Thierry, a corruption of Jankin, a diminutive of John, and a nickname given to the English colonists of Connecticut by the Dutch settlers of New York. Dr. W. Gordon ("Hist. of the Amer. War," ed, 1789, vol. i., pp. 324, 325) says it was a favorite cant word in Cambridge, Mass., as early as 1713, and that it meant excellent; as, a yankee good horse, yankee good cider, etc. Cf. Scot yankie a sharp, clever, and rather bold woman, and Prov. E. bow-yankees a kind of leggins worn by agricultural laborers.] A nickname for a native of citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows.

Yankee

Yan"kee, a. Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.

The alertness of the Yankee aspect.

Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.

A nickname for a native of citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.

Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.

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Usage Examples

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.