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Manhattanite

proper noun

  1. person from or resident of Manhattan, New York, New York
  2. person from or resident of Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Manhattan + -ite.

  1. Of, or from, Manhattan.

    This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.

noun

Etymology: From Manhattan + -ite.

  1. Someone from Manhattan.

    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.