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Zonian, n. (a.)|ˈzəʊnɪən|
[f. Panama Canal Zone (see below) + -ian.]
An American inhabitant of the Panama Canal Zone, a ten mile wide strip of land crossing the Isthmus of Panama on both sides of the Panama Canal, which was granted to the United States as a territory in 1904 and became independent in 1978. Also attrib. or as adj.
1910Everybody's Mag. Mar. 322/1 Whatever your job, digging a canal, or driving a taxi-cab, or writing stock quotations, don't wear a uniform... The Zonian has a uniform, though, in spite of himself. It is the umbrella. 1950Social Forces Dec. 161/1 The man marrying a girl of mixed blood may be unaware of the general Zonian prejudice that classes all Panamanians as ‘colored’. 1951Panama Canal Rev. 3 Aug. 9/3 Zonians..need no longer do without—just because the commissaries are closed. 1964Observer 12 Jan. 1/5 ‘Zonians’, American inhabitants of the [Panama Canal] Zone. 1979P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express xii. 170 Within a very few months the treaty would be ratified. I told this to a Zonian lady... The Zonians, 3,000 workers for the Panama Canal Company..saw the treaty as a sell-out. |