Kingstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪŋˈstəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Kingstonians
Etymology: From Kingston + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In 1860 Kingston had not a 'street that can exhibit a square yard of pavement'. Stable manure was used to repair road surfaces and any Kingstonian abroad at night risked life and limb.
ref: 1961, Gisela Eisner, Jamaica, 1830–1930: A Study in Economic Growth, page 177:
text: With their themes and varied attractions, these parties became a much-anticipated event for Kingstonians on Christmas day after their dinner.
ref: 2002, Kathleen E. A. Monteith and Glen Richards, editors, Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Want to feel like a Kingstonian? Then do as the locals do and head to this casual restaurant, grab a picnic table, and order up some jerk and a Red Stripe.
ref: 2005, Paris Permenter, John Bigley, Adventure Guide to Jamaica: History, Heritage and Culture, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: A native or resident of Kingston, Jamaica.
examples: text: These views, coming from one of the most influential men in the province, a Kingstonian who was soon to become one of the founders of the penitentiary, are significant.
ref: 1998, Peter Oliver, 'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, →ISBN, pages 92–93:
text: It used to be said that you had to have three generations of ancestors buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery before you could be reckoned as one of the "Old Stones", or even rightly call yourself a Kingstonian.
ref: 2011, William Closson James, God's Plenty: Religious Diversity in Kingston, →ISBN, page 369:
text: The political leader of Canada, the son of a man who took great pains to differentiate the Canadian identity from the elephant to the south, gave a surprisingly typical response at once rooted in our national insecurity and summing up the collective evolution of many fans' thoughts, including that of the proud Kingstonian sitting beside me at the show.
ref: 2018, Michael Barclay, The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or resident of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
examples: text: The character of the inhabitants during this long period seems, on their own shewing, to have been far from reputable; every vice and every species of immorality appears to have been practised more or less openly, and it was not till the present century that any great or marked improvement took place in the intelligence or prosperity of the Kingstonians.
ref: 1852, W. G. Biden, editor, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient and Royal Town of Kingston-upon-Thames, page 32:
text: [...] we shall turn to the east and finish the purlieus of Hampton with a glance at the old Saxon town of Kingston-on-Thames. Probably an ardent Kingstonian would indignantly disown the impression our three words are apt to give of the place.
ref: 1876, “Up The Thames”, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XVII, number 97, page 33:
text: Kingstonians blessed or cursed with a nagging wife just complained to the Bailiffs who had her placed in the ducking stool and forcibly immersed in the river.
ref: 1938, G. Herbert Shaw, A Survey of the Royal Borough and Its Amenities, page 15:
text: The churchyard is therefore still the final resting place of Kingstonians, as is the Memorial Garden, which was once the church 'overflow' burial ground.
ref: 2014, Julian McCarthy, Secret Kingston Upon Thames, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or resident of Kingston upon Thames, England.