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Tennessean

or Ten·nes·see·an

[ ten-uh-see-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the state of Tennessee or its inhabitants.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the state of Tennessee.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tennessean1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15; Tennessee + -an

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Example Sentences

Indeed, the 75-year-old Tennessean, creator of the consulting juggernaut Bain & Co.

He told me that he (Beauregard) had organised both the Virginian and Tennessean armies.

They said that he was a Tennessean, and had joined the Yankee army, and they showed them no quarter.

Holingsworth was not a Texan, but a Tennessean, though Texas had been for some years his adopted home.

The white-headed eagle, soaring above the spray of a Tennessean forest, looks down upon the clearing of the squatter.

It was midnight when we arrived upon the shore of the Mississippi—at its point of confluence with the Tennessean stream.

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