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4 words match “SOUTHERNER”

SOUTHERNER n.
An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
NORTHERNER n.
A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner. [U. S.]
SOUTHERN n.
A Southerner. [R.]
YANKEE n.
England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States. From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows. Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 176…