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  • noun Someone from the city of Charleston.

Etymologies

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Charleston +‎ -ian.

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Examples

  • Former Charlestonian Robert Bornmann sent this lookback item:

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Mrs. Vereen Huguenin Coehn, called “Miss Vereen” according to the custom, is 75 years old, and she is only a second-generation Charlestonian.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • From my own anecdotal knowledge of the region (I'm a North Carolinian), and a basic understand of the sociological structures of the contemporary U.S. (i.e., not stereotypes, but Census data, etc.), I would guess that Edwards is pulling rural, working class whites, while Clinton is pulling the more affluent, urban Charlestonian voters.

    SurveyUSA: Obama Up By 13 In Final SC Poll, In Racially Polarized Campaign 2009

  • Emma's address brought us to an antebellum survivor with an archetypically Charlestonian design: narrow across the front, deep down the lot, side verandas upstairs and down.

    Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

  • The book before Ada this day was another one of her father's, a tale of frontier adventure by Simms, a Charlestonian and a friend of Monroe's that Ada had met on a number of occasions when he was in town from his plantation on the Edisto.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Now as he crossed Memorial Bridge into the city, he wondered if she was a Charlestonian who had taken a similar route home.

    The Alibi Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1999

  • The book before Ada this day was another one of her father's, a tale of frontier adventure by Simms, a Charlestonian and a friend of Monroe's that Ada had met on a number of occasions when he was in town from his plantation on the Edisto.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Do you remember at the barbecue, the day our engagement was announced, that a man named Butler, a Charlestonian by his accent, nearly caused a fight by his remarks about the ignorance of Southerners?

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Do you remember at the barbecue, the day our engagement was announced, that a man named Butler, a Charlestonian by his accent, nearly caused a fight by his remarks about the ignorance of Southerners?

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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