Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Northern United States | Yes | No | No | No |
Yankee | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Northern United States (noun) | Yankee (noun) |
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the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line | 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) |
Northern United States (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) |