# United Statian
## English
### Alternative forms

* Unitedstatian, United-Statian

### Etymology

From United States +‎ -ian.

### Noun

United Statian (plural United Statians)
* (rare, nonstandard) A citizen or inhabitant of the United States.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:American
** 1919 December 22, “Greek Kayo King And Chip Battle”, in New Castle News, page 18; republished as Newspaper Archives Pennsylvania, United States‎, 2024:What Darcy did is [...] history for the Australian topped up to George, -hook hands with our United Statian and biffed, banged and roughed heads, shoulders and elbows for 20 long rounds to a draw.
** 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 103:Mme de Réan-Fichini [...] published her treatise, On Contraceptive Devices, in Kapuskan patois (to spare the blushes of Estonians and United Statians; while instructing hardier fellow-workers in her chosen field).
** 2006, Mark Pearson, Martin Westerman, Spain from a Backpack, page 17:I started calling myself a “United Statian,” because calling myself an “American” seemed presumptuous, since everybody else from every other country in our hemisphere is American, too.

### Adjective

United Statian (comparative more United Statian, superlative most United Statian)
* (rare, nonstandard) Pertaining to the United States.
** 1895, Peter Donan, “A wonderful tour” (chapter X), in Utah: a peep into a mountain-walled treasury of the gods, Buffalo: Matthews-Northrup Co., page 78:All the boasted mountain scenery, from the New Hampshire “Notch” to far-famed “Lookout,” where the historic “Battle above the Clouds” never took place, would look like ant-hills and pig-troughs in any hundred miles of the Utah and Colorado Rockies — the only Real Wonderland, with the “R. W.” blown in the glass, of the United-Statian part of the new world.
** 2004, Matthew Clay Bronson, Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a multiple case study‎, Davis: University of California, page 191:Often, education in the US tends to be technocratic and anti-intellectual. United Statian students are not typically prepared, that is, prepared to accept the responsibility of becoming global citizens...
** 2010, Lourdes Diaz Soto et al., Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children, page 71:Bilingual/ bicultural students do not fit easily into the prevailing United Statian racial categories.
** 2014, Carla Guerrón Montero, “Tourism, cultural heritage and regional identities in the Isle of Spice”, in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, →DOI, pages 1–21:As Patterson asserts about the team, which includes an archaeology school primarily for United Statian and British students, Carriacou is an attractive place to conduct research ...
** 2020, Lasso-Rodriguez, G., & Gil-Herrera, R., “Training the Teachers with Assistance of Robotic Process Automation”, in INTED2020 Proceedings, →DOI, pages 8714–8720:The aptitude of current teachers [...] declarative level of pluralism, and their attitudes or actual behaviours; or the United Statian challenges of growing re-segregation, inequality in school funding, and childhood poverty rates with increases of more than 50% since the 1970s.