United Statian

noun

Etymology

From United Stat(es) + -ian.

Definitions

  1. A citizen or inhabitant of the United States.

    • What Darcy did is [...] history for the Australian topped up to George, -hook hands with our United Statian and biffed, banged and roughed heads, shoulders and elbows for 20 long rounds to a draw.
    • Mme de Réan-Fichini [...] published her treatise, On Contraceptive Devices, in Kapuskan patois (to spare the blushes of Estonians and United Statians; while instructing hardier fellow-workers in her chosen field).
    • I started calling myself a “United Statian,” because calling myself an “American” seemed presumptuous, since everybody else from every other country in our hemisphere is American, too.
  2. Pertaining to the United States.

    • Often, education in the US tends to be technocratic and anti-intellectual. United Statian students are not typically prepared, that is, prepared to accept the responsibility of becoming global citizens...
    • Bilingual/ bicultural students do not fit easily into the prevailing United Statian racial categories.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA