noun YANG-kee
Definition
1 a : a native or inhabitant of New England
b : a native or inhabitant of the northern United States
2 : a native or inhabitant of the United States
Examples
"I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut…. So I am a
Yankee of the
Yankees…." — Mark Twain,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
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