yankee

1. 1.

   used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

   Similarnorthern

Other forms of yankee

plural

yankees·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yankee

What does yankee mean?

yankee means "an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yankee?

yankee has 2 syllables: yan-kee. The stress falls on "yan". In IPA it is /ˈjæŋki/.

What is another word for yankee?

Close synonyms include Yank, Northerner, New Englander, Yank, Yankee-Doodle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yankee a common word?

yankee is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.