| 单词 | Yankee |
| 释义 | Yankee /yang"kee/, n. 1. a native or inhabitant of the United States. 2. a native or inhabitant of New England. 3. a native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, esp. of one of the northeastern states that sided with the Union in the American Civil War. 4. a federal or northern soldier in the American Civil War. 5. a word used in communications to represent the letter Y. 6. Mil. the NATO name for a class of Soviet ballistic missile submarine, nuclear powered, with up to 16 missile launchers. adj. 7. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a Yankee or Yankees: Yankee ingenuity. [1750-60, Amer.; perh. back formation from D Jan Kees John Cheese, nickname (mistaken for plural) applied by the Dutch of colonial New York to English settlers in Connecticut] |
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