English Dictionary

Yankee

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈjæŋ.ki/

名詞

南部アメリカ英語 米国北部英語 ルイジアナ方言 南部方言

(chiefly outside the US) A native or inhabitant of the United States. / (chiefly Southern US) A native or inhabitant of the Northern United States.

日本語の意味

（主にアメリカ国外で）アメリカ合衆国の出身者・居住者。 / （主にアメリカ南部で）北部出身のアメリカ人。

As a Yankee living in Paris, he missed baseball games and apple pie.

パリに住むアメリカ人として、彼は野球観戦やアップルパイが恋しかった。

意味（1）

(chiefly outside the US) A native or inhabitant of the United States.

...in a short time, a kind of infectious mirth and pride in their bargains took possession of the place, and every one bought something, holding out their purchases to view, and praising them in the words and phraseology of the young yankees, who, finding their own importance, were not slow to avail themselves of it,...

意味（2）

(chiefly Southern US) A native or inhabitant of the Northern United States.

意味（3）

(chiefly Northern US) A native or inhabitant of New England.

意味（4）

(chiefly southern Louisiana) An Anglo, as opposed to someone with French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.

意味（5）

(nautical) A large triangular headsail used in light or moderate winds and set on the fore topmast stay. Unlike a genoa it does not fill the whole fore triangle, but is set in combination with the working staysail.

意味（6）

(baseball) A player that plays for the New York Yankees.

意味（7）

A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.

Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like.

Yankees （ plural ）