单词 | arizonan |
释义 | Arizonann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Arizona. ΚΠ 1866 Daily Clarion & Standard (Jackson, Mississippi) 7 June Arizonan and Montanan have so uncouth a sound, that we must even be content with giving them one more letter than the law allows. Let them, then, be Arizonians and Montanians. 1866 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 7 July We believe Gov. McCormick expresses the common opinion among Arizonans. 1884 P. Hamilton Resources of Arizona (ed. 3) ix. 251 Arizonans are a reading people; and beneath the rough exterior of the humble prospector will be often found the gentleman of finished education and bright attainments. 1947 S. Sierran (Los Angeles) Nov. 3/2 An Arizonan never climbs a mountain without first putting a horse under him. 1973 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 22 Aug. 58/1 When 16,538 Arizonans applied for the 7,185 available elk permits, they stayed away in droves from the Hualapai and Apache Indian reservations. 2003 High Country News 28 Apr. 11/3 A multimillion acre-foot mega-claim by Navajo could threaten water for the nearly 4.5 million Arizonans who depend on the Central Arizona Project. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Arizona. ΚΠ 1872 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 3rd Ser. 4 455 There being more of the latter color in the Mexican than in the Arizonan specimens. 1879 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 19 Sept. An old Californian and Arizonan prospector blows out his brains in a fit of insanity on a Mexican desert. 1937 Pacific Northwest Q. 28 68 A paper on internal linguistic evidences for a northern origin of Arizonan Navaho. 1995 Brew Mar. 26/1 Cave Creek is in an area of Arizona now known as the Golden Corridor, where visitors can sample nearly everything Arizonan. 2015 J. Alcock in J. A. Murray Abbey in Amer. iii. 44 A group called Humane Borders has placed water tanks in the Arizonan desert along trails. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1866 |
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