Edinburghian
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person from Edinburgh.
"Based on people he had observed in Hampstead, the song borrows from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island when the narrator calls himself “Long John Silver” […]. But apparently Anderson's fellow Edinburghian had no influence on “Mother Goose.”"
Example
More examples"Based on people he had observed in Hampstead, the song borrows from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island when the narrator calls himself “Long John Silver” […]. But apparently Anderson's fellow Edinburghian had no influence on “Mother Goose.”"
Etymology
From Edinburgh + -ian.