Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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New England | Yes | No | No | No |
Yankee | Yes | Yes | No | No |
New England (noun) | Yankee (noun) |
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a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut | an American (especially to non-Americans) |
an American who lives in New England | |
an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) |
New England (adjective) | Yankee (adjective) |
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used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier) |