Definition of New Jerseyan

1. Noun. A native of resident of New Jersey.

Exact synonyms: Garden Stater, New Jerseyite
Generic synonyms: American

Lexicographical Neighbors of New Jerseyan

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New Guinea flightless rails
New Hampshire
New Hampshire rule
New Hampshirite
New Hampshirites
New Haven
New Hebrides
New High German
New Holland
New Ionian
New Ionic
New Ireland
New Jersey
New Jersey Plan
New Jerseyan (current term)
New Jerseyite
New Jerseyites
New Journalism
New Labour
New Latin
New London
New Look
New Mexican
New Mexicans
New Mexico
New Netherland
New Norwegian
New Orleanian

Literary usage of New Jerseyan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor by Richard A. Hogarty (2001)
"Some considered Cattell more a Philadelphian than a New Jerseyan.26 Abbett understood only too well the stakes involved in Stockton's expulsion. ..."

2. A First View of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1905)
"... and that as between these two, both in quality and quantity of work, the New Jerseyan surpasses the New Englander. Charles Brockden Brown. ..."

3. Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Clarke, S. J., publishing company (1912)
"His father, a soldier under Mad Anthony Wayne, was of Virginia stock while his mother was a New Jerseyan. Reuben had little education. ..."

4. Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katharine Coman (1912)
"Consequently the cautious New Jerseyan made all possible speed. Lisa, meanwhile, was driving his patient voyageurs to desperate exertions. ..."

5. The Broad Pennant: Or, A Cruise in the United States Flag Ship of the Gulf by Fitch Waterman Taylor (1848)
"... not willingly spoil the associations of the fine peaches by altering the paragraph ; and the Princeton is all New-Jerseyan, in her origin and earlier ..."

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