demonym

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dem·o·nym

(dĕm′ə-nĭm′)

A name, such as Swede or New Yorker, that denotes an inhabitant or native of a given place.

[Greek dēmos, people; see dā- in Indo-European roots + -onym.]

dem′o·nym′ic adj.

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Translations

gentilé

demonym

References in periodicals archive ?

[35] Harinder Pal, Mausam, "Demonyms and Compound Relational Nouns in Nominal Open IE," in Proc.

A Distance Approach for Open Information Extraction Based on Word Vector

Davies is struck by the 'colourful demonyms which Australians use to identify the inhabitants of their country.' For those in Victoria, the residents of New South Wales are termed 'cockroaches' and South Australians are routinely dubbed as 'croweaters'.