New Englishwoman

noun

A female inhabitant of New England.

Meanings

nounNew Englishwoman (plural New Englishwomen)

plural New Englishwomen

  1. historicalrareA female inhabitant of New England.

    As a New Englishwoman, maybe she just wants to see the Red Sox win their most recent World Series in 1918?

    2020 September 7, NewsDesk, “Recap of “Lovecraft’s country”: night at the museum”, in ExBulletin, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022
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    And soon all sojourners who bore news back to England of the New-Englishmen and New-Englishwomen, told of ample store of gardens. Ere a year had passed hopeful John Winthrop wrote, “My Deare Wife, wee are here in a Paradise.”

    1901, Alice Morse Earle, Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 3

    The three American wives included each achieved a degree of independence, illustrative of the greater freedom allowed to New Englishwomen.

    1974, Katharine Moore, Victorian Wives, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page xxviii

    "It's not me, Sally. It was written by Anne Bradstreet." […] "I can never match up them New Englishwomen, John. Just leave me alone!"

    1992, Malcolm Lynch, The Dartmoor Yankee, Padstow: Tabb House, →ISBN, page 91

    Synonyms: New Englandress

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA female inhabitant of New England.

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APA

New Englishwoman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Englishwoman

MLA

“New Englishwoman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Englishwoman. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “New Englishwoman,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Englishwoman.

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