Yankeeland
Americannoun
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Chiefly Southern U.S. the northern states of the U.S.
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Chiefly British. the U.S.
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Chiefly Northern U.S. New England.
Etymology
Origin of Yankeeland
Example Sentences
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The northern region, which Woodard calls "Yankeeland", is rooted in the early Puritan settlers who fled religious persecution in Europe, with later additions of Germans and Scandinavian settlers helping to solidify a pluralistic outlook.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
Being the only outlander on the course I couldn't help feeling that the sporting reputation of Yankeeland rested, for this day at least, upon my shoulders.
From Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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