Jacksonian

American  

[jak-soh-nee-uhn] / dʒækˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him.

   Jacksonian democracy.

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noun

1. a follower of Andrew Jackson.

Jacksonian British  

/ dʒækˈsəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to a person surnamed Jackson, esp Andrew Jackson

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Etymology

Origin of Jacksonian

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25; Jackson + -ian

Example Sentences

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Jacksonian

A grim 19th-century commentary on nature, civilization and Jacksonian America, the sequence doubles as the exhibition’s interrogation of the current democratic moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

A Jacksonian does not dream of implanting “American values” on foreign soil.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Number 4, "William Henry Harrison: His Life and Times" is a real book, but it's by James A. Green, not by Robert Remini, a well-known historian of the Jacksonian age.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

Instead, these states had the crackling entrepreneurial energy that Alexis de Tocqueville, floating down the Ohio in Jacksonian America, saw to his right, in Ohio, but not to his left, in slaveholding Kentucky.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John