United Statian
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From United States + -ian.
Noun[edit]
United Statian (plural United Statians)
- (rare) A citizen or inhabitant of the United States.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:American
- 1919, December 22, New Castle News, Greek Kayo King And Chip Battle, Newspaper Archives Pennsylvania, United States, p. 18. Retrieved from https://newspaperarchive.com/new-castle-news-dec-22-1919-p-18/:
- 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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 103:
- 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).
- 2006, Mark Pearson, Martin Westerman, Spain from a Backpack, page 17:
- 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.
Adjective[edit]
United Statian (comparative more United Statian, superlative most United Statian)
- (rare) Pertaining to the United States.
- 2004, Bronson, Matthew Clay, Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a multiple case study, University of California, Davis, p. 191. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/openview/8a38f0ed5aae7a59c82959697516d8d2/1.pdf:
- 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...
- 2010, Lourdes Diaz Soto et al., Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children, page 71:
- Bilingual/ bicultural students do not fit easily into the prevailing United Statian racial categories.
- 2014, Carla Guerrón Montero, “Tourism, cultural heritage and regional identities in the Isle of Spice”, in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, , pages 1–21:
- As Patterson asserts about the team, which includes an archaeology school primarily for United Statian and British students, Carriacou is an attractive place to conduct research ...
- 2020, Lasso-Rodriguez, G., & Gil-Herrera, R., “Training the Teachers with Assistance of Robotic Process Automation”, in INTED2020 Proceedings, , pages 8714–8720:
- The aptitude of current teachers [...] declarative level of pluralism, and their attitudes or actual behaviours; or the United Statian challenges of growing re-segregation, inequality in school funding, and childhood poverty rates with increases of more than 50% since the 1970s.
- 2004, Bronson, Matthew Clay, Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a multiple case study, University of California, Davis, p. 191. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/openview/8a38f0ed5aae7a59c82959697516d8d2/1.pdf: