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Manhattanite [man-hat-n-ahyt, muh n-] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a native or inhabitant of the borough of Manhattan.
Origin of Manhattanite An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; Manhattan + -ite1 Examples from the Web for manhattanite Contemporary Examples of manhattanite
While quick on his feet, funny, pointed and well-read, Stewart is a Manhattanite through and through.
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Lloyd Grove
October 9, 2014
Meet “Ford Nation,” where 15-year-olds call the shots and the rest of us are just “Manhattanite hipsters.”
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Gideon Resnick
December 26, 2013
For a Manhattanite who was up to then a pretty standard liberal, he did something unusual.
Michael Tomasky
February 1, 2013
Historical Examples of manhattanite
The Manhattanite knows him to be wrong by a matter of three thousand and some odd miles.
Arthur Bartlett Maurice