United Statesian

alternative United-Statesian

1. nonstandardnot comparableOf or pertaining to the United States of America.

   There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.

   2005, Greg Scott, editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400

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   For this blue-book is a sort of school primer, intended to teach the Danes how to pronounce the United-Statesian language, and perhaps we English may have a lesson, too.

   1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, 2nd edition, page 76

plural United Statesians · alternative United-Statesian

1. nonstandardAn inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.

   If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.

   2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175

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   To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.

   1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146

   Synonyms: Statesider, United Statian, US-American, Usonian, American, US-ian, Usanian