Yankeeland

American  

[yang-kee-land] / ˈyæŋ kiˌlænd /

noun

1. Chiefly Southern U.S. the northern states of the U.S.

2. Chiefly British. the U.S.

3. Chiefly Northern U.S. New England.

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Etymology

Origin of Yankeeland

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; Yankee + land

Example Sentences

Keller continued the Yankeeland breeding farm started by his late father, Charles Keller Jr., the New York Yankees outfielder who played alongside Joe DiMaggio.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2016

For conspiracy theorists in the Bronx, the bloody sock was the ketchup sock—a kind of paranoid delusion in Yankeeland that only made the whole thing sweeter for Sox fans.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 21, 2016

More entertaining than the adjective search is monitoring the level of alarm in Yankeeland, with the decidedly un-savior-like A. J. Burnett now being counted on to save the franchise.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2010

Jackson's pyrotechnics were the fitting climax to a series�and a season�of explosive unrest in Yankeeland.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man might step out to the city limit, and stand with one leg in full Yankeeland, thrilling with enterprise and emulation, and the other planted, as it were, in the "Patriarchal Times."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various