manhattanite
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or from, Manhattan.
Example Sentences
- "This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner."
- "Walter Gaskell was a tall, silver-haired Manhattanite with a narrow waist and broad shoulders, and his blue eyes had the luminous, emptied-out look of a reformed alcoholic's."
- "The most likely explanation is that Cage imagined Peter as a fop of the first order, the type of ivory-tower Manhattanite whose exalted sense of privilege naturally leads to a hilariously affected manner of speech."