Raleighan

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noun

A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounRaleighan (plural Raleighans)

plural Raleighans

  1. A native or inhabitant of Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.

    Subsequently, Jonathan Daniels, Truman's secretary and Yergan's fellow Raleighan, told a White House staffer that he knew the NNC president well, ...

    2006, David Henry Anthony, III, Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior, NYU Press, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    In the morning, like other wide-eyed Raleighans I crept out of my door and surveyed the devastation [of Hurricane Fran]. No street was passable; trees crossed every road, ...

    2007, Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, Crown, →ISBN, page 3

    It's a long story, plausibly true, and beloved by Raleighans. After the Revolution, legislators of the new state needed to plant their capital somewhere ...

    2010, Scott Huler, On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work, Rodale Books, →ISBN, page 14
  2. A follower, imitator or scholar of Walter Raleigh.

    ... the letter is replete with Raleighan echoes notwithstanding such rhetoric as "Woe, woe, woe.... Oh God.... Oh, what will my poor servants think."

    2015, Willard Mosher Wallace, Sir Walter Raleigh, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 198
    1 more example

    […] Baconians proper, Raleighans, Stanleyites, Rutlanders, Marlowites, etc., have made it a strong argument against the Stratfordean's claim to […]

    1916, The Dial, page 456

Origin

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APA

Raleighan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Raleighan

MLA

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Chicago

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