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Washingtonian   /wˌɑʃɪŋtˈoʊniən/  /wˌɔʃɪŋtˈoʊniən/   Listen
Washingtonian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or in the manner of George Washington.
2.
Of or relating to the people who run the federal government.
3.
Of or relating to the capital of the United States.
4.
Of or relating to or in the state of Washington.





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"Washingtonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... sections of West Virginia there is no liking for automobilists, as was evidenced in the case of a Washingtonian who was motoring in a sparsely settled ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... knowledge, we must all concede that these were the times when political strife assumed a formidable aspect—when the press most flagrantly outraged individual rights and domestic peace—when the impugners of the Washingtonian administration received new weapons, with which to inflict their assaults upon tried patriotism, by every arrival from abroad announcing France in her progress. The federalists and the anti-federalists now became the federal ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... check the outrage. Such action would have pleased some people in the East, but the President knew that this quixotic knight errantry would not appeal to the country at large, particularly the West, still strongly grounded in the Washingtonian tradition of non-interference ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty


Words linked to "Washingtonian" :   Washington, American


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