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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Yankee.

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  • noun US A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States.
  • noun sometimes pejorative A Yankee, an American: someone from the United States.

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From Yankee.

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