🔤 Yankee ✨

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🔊 Play Roman

amriki, shumali amriki, yankee

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📚noun

yankee

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DEFINITION

a person from the northern united states or an american in general

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The term yankee originally referred to people from new england but later came to describe americans in general. During the civil war yankee soldiers fought against confederate forces in some of the bloodiest battles in american history. The baseball team called the yankees is one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports. Foreign travelers sometimes use the word yankee to refer to any american citizen regardless of their regional background or political views. The yankee trader traveled from town to town selling household goods and tools to farming communities across the frontier.

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american northerner

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southerner confederate