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English
Etymology
From United States + -ian.
Adjective
United Statesian (not comparable)
- (nonstandard) Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, 2nd edition, page 76:For this blue-book is a sort of school primer, intended to teach the Danes how to pronounce the United-Statesian language, and perhaps we English may have a lesson, too.
2005, Greg Scott, editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400:There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.
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Translations
of or pertaining to the United States of America
— see US-American
Noun
United Statesian (plural United Statesians)
- (nonstandard) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.
2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175:If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.
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References
- "United States" in Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition revised, Oxford Dictionaries, 2008.