Edinburghian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Edinburgh +‎ -ian

Noun[edit]

Edinburghian (plural Edinburghians)

  1. A person from Edinburgh.
    Synonyms: Edinbronian, Edinburger
    • 2002, Scott Allen Nollen, Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968–2001, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 68:
      Based on people he had observed in Hampstead, the song borrows from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island when the narrator calls himself “Long John Silver” […] . But apparently Anderson's fellow Edinburghian had no influence on “Mother Goose.”

Translations[edit]

person from Edinburgh — see Edinburger
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