Easternern.
/ˈiːstənə/, /ˈiːstn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈistərnər/ 1.
a. U.S. A native or inhabitant of the eastern part of the United States, esp. one of the north-eastern states.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of
New Englander1637
bayman1641
New English1647
Novangle1650
Novanglian1752
Yankee1765
cracker1766
Yank?1778
bushwhacker1809
tuckahoe1816
southerner1817
Yengees1819
muskrat1823
blue belly1827
half horse and half alligator1828
Southron1828
northerner1831
westerner1835
Northman1836
Easterner1838
Far-Wester1843
southwesterner1845
western1846
sand-hiller1848
Vineyarder1851
mountain boomer1859
Far Westerner1862
blue-nosed Yankee1866
Appalachian1888
sloper1892
Ozarkian1893
rebel1895
reb1897
Middle Westerner1899
hillbilly1900
Midwesterner1916
Ozarker1920
Geechee1926
Middle American1944
upstater1944
Mid-American1959
1838 H. Martineau Retrospect Western Trav. II. 50 The cool assumption by Easterners of the superiority of New-England over all other countries was, whether just or not, likely to be..offensive.
1870 Overland Monthly Oct. 352/1 I also examined such stray Easterners as were wafted to that Pacific shore.
1949 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 783/2 Long-haired Pueblo Indians wrapped in cotton blankets exchange stare for stare with visiting easterners.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xv. 308 She hated the Midwest..she was an Easterner.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 14 May 86/2 Christian Borle's funny, underplayed turn as the elbow-patched Easterner.
b. gen. A native or inhabitant of the eastern part of a country or region.
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1850 Boston (Mass.) Daily Atlas 4 Sept. The Emperor Soulonque has openly declared his implacable hatred towards the Dominicans... The threatened Easterners are not dismayed by the vauntings of their sable ruler.
1897 Sc. Rev. Oct. 331 Biorn the Easterner, son of Ketil Flatneb.
1941 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Sept. 15/2 One tyke..had its paw nipped by a gilgie—or yabbie, as you easterners call 'em.
1991 New Yorker 25 Nov. 56/1 Westerners who work in the East (they used to be called Bundis, because they came from the Bundesrepublik, but now people call them Wessis) have to get along with the Easterners (people call them Ossis).
2004 A. L. Hayes Anglicans in Canada i. 29 Western Canadian Anglicans brimmed with hope that eastern Canada would now give greater support to western missions. Western hopes made easterners nervous.
2. A native or inhabitant of the East (east n.1 2b); an Asian, esp. as distinguished from a European.
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1852 Sartain's Mag. Jan. xvii. 41/2 This wild Easterner has rebuked the Emperor, as I have so often wanted to rebuke him.
1896 Argosy Feb. 495/2 The reports from the sultan's kingdom would indicate that the sole recreation of the fezzed easterners was making Armenian blood to flow.
1921 S. Nearing Amer. Empire xvii. 233 This doctrine will be summed up in the phrase, ‘The East for the Easterners’,—the easterners being the Japanese.
1965 Music Educators Jrnl. 51 167/2 Western art forms are well within the grasp of the easterner's comprehension and appreciation.
2004 J. M. Hobson Eastern Origins Western Civilisation x. 228 The theory elevated the European as the permanently progressive subject or agent, while simultaneously relegating the Easterner as the permanently regressive and passive object, of world history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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