Manhattanite

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone from Manhattan.

    "Walter Gaskell was a tall, silver-haired Manhattanite with a narrow waist and broad shoulders, and his blue eyes had the luminous, emptied-out look of a reformed alcoholic's."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or from, Manhattan. not-comparable

    "This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner."

Synonyms

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manhattanesemanhattanese

Example

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"This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner."

Etymology

From Manhattan + -ite.

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