east-sider

1. 1.

   a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City

   BroaderNew Yorker

Questions about east-sider

What does east-sider mean?

east-sider means "a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City".

How many syllables are in east-sider?

east-sider has 4 syllables and divides as e-ast--si-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is east-sider a common word?

east-sider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.