Definitions

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the city of Cincinnati in Ohio.
  • noun An inhabitant of Cincinnati.

Etymologies

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Cincinnati +‎ -an

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Examples

  • "great Lord's"'Cincinnatian' progress in agriculture be no speedier than the proportional average of time in Pope's couplet, it will, according to the farmer's proverb, be "ploughing with dogs."

    Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Perhaps Lucile was invited to the festivities surrounding the engagement and marriage in 1906 of her contemporary Alice Roosevelt — daughter of Teddy — to Lucile's fellow Cincinnatian, Nicholas Longworth.

    The Cincinnati Grocer's Kid Stephen Birmingham 2010

  • We checked into the honeymoon suite downtown at the Cincinnatian Hotel.

    With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

  • He resides in Willimantic, Connecticut, with his wife, Hayley, and their two cats, but he will always be a Cincinnatian at heart, even if he technically never has been by geography.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • As (Cincinnatian) Bootsy Collins remembers, He never had a neon sign out front.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Joe is a fellow Cincinnatian and he told me over dinner last night that, aside from his marriage and the births of his children and the knowledge that his first grandchild is on the way, the Rondo ceremony was the greatest moment of his life.

    A Sense of Wonderfest, Part 2 2006

  • Audrey told me that she and Gerard Malanga a fellow Cincinnatian left town around the same time, in 1961, but kept in touch after they arrived independently in New York City.

    Audrey Campbell, 1929 - 2006 2006

  • A fellow Cincinnatian and veteran of the THREE MESQUITEERS B-Westerns, Dodd looks like Lampwick from PINOCCHIO... but, like a select breed of folks who made it through the Great Depression, he embodies the very soul of optimism and community.

    So Proudly Put On Your WatchBlog Ears 2006

  • I was initially surprised to discover that she was a fellow Cincinnatian... and then heartbroken to learn that she died under tragic circumstances earlier this year.

    Archive 2006-11-26 2006

  • A fellow Cincinnatian and veteran of the THREE MESQUITEERS B-Westerns, Dodd looks like Lampwick from PINOCCHIO... but, like a select breed of folks who made it through the Great Depression, he embodies the very soul of optimism and community.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

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