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southwesterner

American  
[south-wes-ter-ner] / ˌsaʊθˈwɛs tər nər /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the southwest.

  2. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of the southwestern U.S.


Etymology

Origin of southwesterner

1855–60, southwestern + -er 1

Example Sentences

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“Garner wasn’t a full-on Southerner, he was a Southwesterner,” Post said.

From Los Angeles Times

The sandblasted, sometimes off-kilter Southwesterner and the sardonic Boston brahmin have the chummy rapport of old friends, which they are.

From The Wall Street Journal

After noting that all nine justices attended Harvard or Yale law schools and that only one grew up in the Midwest, he wrote: “Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner.”

From Time

It was six months now since the young Southwesterner had left his native village, and already he thought that he knew New York pretty well, from Harlem where he boarded to Wall Street where he worked.

From Project Gutenberg

If only he had first arrived in New York in the restful quiet of a Sunday, so the young Southwesterner found himself thinking, perhaps the metropolis might not have seemed to him so overwhelming.

From Project Gutenberg