Yankee Definition

yăngkē
noun
A person born or living in New England.
Webster's New World

A person born or living in a U.S. state of the North (see the phrase at north)

Webster's New World
A Union soldier in the Civil War.
Webster's New World
A native or inhabitant of the United States.
American Heritage
Any person born or living in the U.S.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of, like, or characteristic of Yankees.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Yankee

Noun

Singular:
Yankee
Plural:
yankees

Origin of Yankee

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Yankee Sentence Examples

  • Some of the guys figure a dumb trick like a midnight swim ain't so surprising for a Yankee with a snoot full.

  • The wild flowers are spectacular in Yankee Boy Basin and with this weather, we'll have the place to ourselves.

  • You might say to all the world, This is our Yankee Englishman; such limbs we make in Yankee land!

  • This here's Detective Dean from up in Yankee land.

  • This firm prospered for a while, and issued in 1889 Mark Twain's own comic romance, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, and in 1892 a less successful novel, The American Claimant.

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