Nantucketer

English

Etymology

From Nantucket +‎ -er.

Noun

Nantucketer (plural Nantucketers)

  1. An inhabitant of Nantucket.
    • 2026 February 9 (last accessed), “Strangers, Coofs, and Washashores”, in Nantucket Historical Association‎[1], archived from the original on 27 May 2022, pages 1, 4:
      At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island. […] But most of all, at the dawn of a new millennium, who is a Nantucketer and what constitutes Nantucket heritage have been transformed.
    • 2024, Nate DiMeo, “Fifty Words Written About the Arctic Bowhead Whale After Learning That They Can Live up to Two Hundred Years”, in The Memory Palace:
      There is a whale swimming right now
      who may have escaped a Nantucketer's harpoon in 1850
      and a Japanese whale ship in 1950
      who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind
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