Anchorageite

Anchorageite

English

Etymology

Anchorage +‎ -ite

Noun

Anchorageite (plural Anchorageites)

1. An inhabitant of Anchorage.
   • 2007, Fern Chandonnet, Alaska at War, 1941-1945: The Forgotten War Remembered, →ISBN, page 209:

     Yet if Alaska is unique, and if its people are more independent and distrustful of the federal government, a proclamation which many Anchorageites are quick to make, whether they have lived in the city fifty years or fifty days,

   • 2010, Preston Jones, City for Empire: An Anchorage History, 1914-1941, →ISBN, page 42:

     However, Anchorageites could also see the problems that came with bureaucracy and did not want government ownership of all forms of public transportation and communication.

   • 2011, Don Pitcher, Moon Alaska, →ISBN:

     Any Anchorageite over the age of four seems to be involved in cross-country skiing in one form or another.